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For God loved the world so much, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever has an active faith in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God
God inspired all Scripture! It is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. (Greek: theopneustos: God-breathed)
I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
By grace (Greek: charis, divine favor, loving-kindness) you have been saved through faith. It is not from you. It is the gift from God!
We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Do not be conformed to this world (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement). But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Jesus proclaimed: I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through me.
You will receive power, when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Then Peter said: Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift from God is everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
He gave the right to become children of God to all who received him. Even to those who believe in his name.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was like God (God-like).
not by works done in righteousness, which we did, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration (restoration) (spiritual rebirth) and renewing (renovation) of the Holy Spirit.
If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and have active faith in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
The Word [Jesus] became flesh (a human being) and lived with us. We saw the glory of the only begotten son from the Father. He was full of loving-kindness and truth.
Then God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
Trust in Jehovah with all your heart. Do not lean on your own understanding.
But God demonstrates (commends) his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
I know the plans (intentions) (thoughts) that I have for you, says Jehovah. They are plans (intentions) for peace and not disaster. They are intentions to give you a future filled with hope.
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers.
God created man in his own image. In the image of God he created him. He created male and female.
They continued devoting themselves to doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Jesus answered: Truly I tell you unless a person is born again (brought forth from above) he cannot see the kingdom of God.
The thief comes to steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.
He said to them, Go into the entire world, and preach the good news to the whole creation.
There is no salvation in anyone else. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in me.
The true light, which gives light to every man, came into the world. (Isaiah 49:6)
Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying: All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
We are justified (acquitted) (made righteous) by faith. And we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
For unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. He will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
Those who live through (in union with) (because of) Jesus Christ have no condemnation. [They do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.]
There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee on the third day. The mother of Jesus was there.
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all with one accord in one place.
I have been impaled with Christ. It is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. The life that I now live in the flesh (physical body) I live by faith. This is the faith that is in the Son of God. He loved me and gave himself up for me.
I am not ashamed of the good news; for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who exerts active faith (believes), to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
Be diligent to be presented approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.
Seek (desire) (require) (serve) first the kingdom of God and his righteousness [continuously] and all these things will be added to you.
I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another helper, that he [the Father] may be with you forever.
A great cloud of witnesses surround us. Therefore let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that easily entangles us. Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
God is a Spirit. They who worship him must worship him with spirit and truth.
Therefore Jehovah will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel (God with us).
Have this attitude (mind-set) (understanding) (mental state) in you that was also in Christ Jesus.
Be on guard for yourselves and the flock that the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Feed the Congregation of God that he purchased with the blood of his own [Son].
Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved. (Joel 2:32)
If you love me, you will keep (obey) my commandments!
The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
The earth was without form and empty. Darkness covered the deep water. The Spirit of God hovered over the waters.
The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.
Jesus responded: I tell you truth, except a man be born of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!
The Lord was aware that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John.
Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, and evidence of things not seen.
Listen, Israel! JEHOVAH OUR GOD IS ONE GOD!
You will know the truth and the truth will make you free!
The Word of God is alive and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. (Ephesians 6:17) It separates the physical person from the spiritual person, of both joints and marrow. And it can discern (judge) the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (John 12:48)
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man helps much.
The next day he saw Jesus coming to him. He boldly declared: Behold! The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!
You were once dead because of your trespasses and sins.
When the Spirit of truth comes it will guide you to all truth for it will not speak from itself. It will speak the things it hears and declare to you the things that are to come.
Let every person be subject to superior authorities. For there is no authority except by God. God allows the authorities to serve in their positions.
You are Peter (Greek: petros: piece of rock), and on this rock-mass (Greek: petra: mass of rock) (referring to Jesus) I will build my congregation. The entrance to the grave (Greek: Hades) will not have power to stop it.
When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
And I will put enmity (hostility) (hatred) between you and the woman, and between your offspring (seed) and hers. He will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) you in the head, and you will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) him in the heel. (Romans 16:20)
The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.
The Father will send a helper in my name, the Holy Spirit, which (Greek: hos he ho) (which) (that one) will teach you all things and bring to your memory all that I said to you.
You are from your father [Satan] the Devil (slanderer) (false accuser)! You want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. He does not stand for the truth. There is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks his own lies. He is a liar and the father of the lie!
He came to tell (witness) (testify) about the light and help people have faith.
For the grace (divine influence) of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all men,
Do not think I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I came, not to destroy, but to fulfill (perfect) (execute) (accomplish).
Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in his mighty strength.
Jesus told him: You shall love Jehovah your God with all your heart (Greek: kardia: feelings, emotions), and with all your being, and with your entire mind (Greek: dianoia: understanding). (Deuteronomy 6:5)
He is the image (likeness) (representation) of the invisible God. He is the firstborn (Greek: prototokos: childbirth, offspring) of all creation.
I am the vine and you are the branches. He that remains with me, and I with him, the same bears much fruit. You can do nothing apart from me.
Truly, Truly I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him that sent me, has everlasting life. He will not receive judgment for he has passed out of death into life.
In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions! (Ac 2:17; Isa 44:3)
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
Without faith it is impossible to please God. He who comes to God must believe that he is and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Look for the blessed hope and appearance of the glory of the great God. And look for our Savior, Jesus Christ.
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word about Christ.
He told you, O lowly man, what is good and what Jehovah requires of you. You should display justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God!
He made a whip of cords, and chased them all out of the temple, including the sheep and the oxen. He poured out the coins of the moneychangers and overturned the tables.
Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals Jehovah God had made. He said to the woman: Did God really say, you must not eat from any tree in the garden?
Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. They began to speak with different tongues, as the Spirit moved them to speak.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved. He who does not believe will be condemned.
The Scriptures say: There is no one who is righteous,
Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth.
Then God said: Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them. It was so.
They said: Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your house.
If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God. He gives to all generously and without reproach and it will be given to him.
Jesus said: I am the resurrection and the life. He who puts active faith in me will live, even if he dies.
Those who gladly received his word were baptized. About three thousand persons were added the same day.
When he said these things, while they watched, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Do not have sexual intercourse with a man as with a woman. It is disgusting.
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul spoke to them. Intending to depart the next morning he prolonged his speech until midnight.
Sanctify the Christ as Lord (kurios: master) in your hearts. Always be ready to answer every man who asks you a reason for your hope, yet with meekness (mildness) and respect!
This is everlasting life that they should have *deep, intimate knowledge of you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have commissioned. *(Greek: ginosko: know, perceive, be sure, understand)
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her: Please give me a drink.
Jesus said: I tell you the truth, I existed before Abraham was born! (Ex 3:14, 15)
His invisible attributes are clearly seen since the creation of the world. The things made prove His eternal power and divine nature. Mankind has no excuse,
Jehovah God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The man became a living being.
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Long ago on many occasions and in many ways God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah has anointed me to announce good news to the lowly and meek. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners.
A rich man dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hears my voice, and opens the door, I will come in to him, and dine with him, and he with me.
Jehovah said to Abram: Leave your country, your people, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.
Not everyone who calls me Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven. He who does the will of my Father in heaven will enter.
The wind blows where it will. You hear the sound of it. Yet you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. It is like this with every one who is born from the Spirit.
Those who hope in Jehovah will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint.
The sick man replied: I have no man to put me in the pool when the water is stirred. Others step down before I can go.
Jesus told the Jews who believed him: If you dwell in my word you truly are my disciples.
He who has an active faith in him is not judged. He who does not have an active faith has been judged already for he has not had faith in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
You should be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have, for he has said: I will not leave you. I will not forsake you.
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.
Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.
The Father and I are one (united in purpose).
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.
In this way you will know with certainty the truth that you were taught.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the cultivator.
It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
You have tasted that the Lord is kind.
Ask and it will be given you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened for you.
Then God said: Let there be light! And there was light.
The next month God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth in Galilee
He came to Jesus by night, and said to him: Rabbi! We know you are a teacher from God. No one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places through Christ.
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You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill may be seen by all.
The birth (genesis: origin) (beginning) of Jesus Christ was as follows: His mother Mary had been promised to Joseph in marriage. But before they were married, Mary realized that she was pregnant by Holy Spirit.
God then said to Moses: [I exist and] I WILL BE WHO I WILL BE. You shall say to the sons of Israel: I WILL BE, has sent me to you.' (Hebrew: hayah, I was, I am, I will be gives evidence of God's eternal existence)
Beloved, do not believe every spirit. Test the spirits to see whether they are from God. This is because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one (united) in Christ Jesus. (John 17:21) (Ephesians 4:4-6)
Is any among you sick? Let him call the elders of the congregation. Let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of God.
A lawyer stood up to test him. He asked: Teacher what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?
I do not want you to be ignorant brothers, concerning those who are asleep (in death). You do not need to sorrow like others who have no hope.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of lights (truth and spiritual purity), with whom there is no variation. He does not change like shifting shadows.
He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.
I spoke to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you have tribulation. Be of good cheer for I have conquered the world!
God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful and increase in number. Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and dominate the birds of the air. Have dominion over every living creature that moves on the ground.
You have heard the word of the truth in Christ. It is the good news about your salvation. You also believed and were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.
His light shines through darkness and it cannot be extinguished.
Jehovah is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness. He is longsuffering (patient) toward you. He does not wish that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Not being the light he came to give a witness of it.
The angel replied: Holy Spirit would come to you and the power of the Most High will envelope you. Because of this the newborn will be called the Son of God.
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for the fatherless persons and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.
He who puts active faith in the Son has everlasting life. He who disobeys* the Son will not see life for the wrath of God remains upon him. (*Greek: apeitheo: willfully disobey, not having faith)
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
If your brother does wrong to you, go to him in private. Clearly explain his error between you and him. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother back.
They said: You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was received up from you into heaven will come in a similar manner as you saw him go into heaven.
Repent therefore, and turn around, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times (seasons) of refreshing shall come from the presence of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 18:18, 19)
For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but he does not have works? Can that faith save him?
God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world. Instead the world should be saved through him.
Or are you ignorant to the fact that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Our Father in heaven, holy is your name. (Exodus 6:3) (Psalm 83:18) (Isaiah 42:8; 54:5; 63:16; 64:8)
Aged women likewise should be reverent in behavior and teachers of that which is good. They should not be slanderers nor enslaved to too much wine.
This is the reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife. They will become one flesh.
Jehovah God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Do not get drunk with wine, for that is a public act of violence, but be filled with the Spirit.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. There was no more sea.
But he was pierced for our transgressions! He was crushed for our iniquities! The punishment that brought us peace was upon him. There has been healing for us because of his wounds.
But the hour comes and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father with spirit and truth. The Father seeks such people to worship him.
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of all the inhabited earth.
There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
God's Spirit led Jesus into the desert wilderness. There he was tested (tempted) by the Devil.
You search (investigate) (study) the Scriptures because you think that in them you have everlasting life. These Scriptures testify about me.
In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
Do not wonder about this for the hour is coming when everyone in the grave will hear his voice.
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
No man has ever seen God. The only begotten God-like one who is closest to the Father (in the bosom of the Father) tells us about him. (Psalm 8:5)
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, invite you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called.
Stop judging, so that you will not be judged.
You Bethlehem Ephrathah who are little to be among the thousands of Judah. Out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel! His origin is from of old, from everlasting (days of antiquity) (ancient times).
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
First of all, I delivered to you what I also received, how Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
No man has greater love then this that a man lay down his life for his friends.
They are from the world. They speak that which is from the world and the world listens to them.
I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God's Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him.
It was evening of the first day of the week. The disciples shut the doors where they stayed for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them: May you have Peace.
Saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep [in death], all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
No man can come to me unless the Father, who sent me, draws him. I will resurrect him (raise him up) in the last day.
After this the Jews had a Festival (holy day), and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
All things in the heavens and upon the earth where created through him. The things visible and invisible were created through him. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must also be lifted up.
Enter through the narrow gate, since the gate to destruction is wide and the road that leads to destruction is wide and many enter through it.
God overlooked the times of ignorance; but now he commands men everywhere to repent.
Nicodemus asked: How could a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb again and be born?
If you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Those he first recognized, he ordained in advance that they be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, who deceive themselves.
As God's chosen, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness (humility), meekness (mildness), and long-suffering (patience).
Not forsaking the gathering of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and even more, as you see the day approaching.
Because Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.
The number of disciples increased at that time. A murmuring arose on the part of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution.
Peace I leave with you! My peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives to you. Do not let your heart be troubled or full of fear.
My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me.
Everyone who asks receives. Everyone who seeks finds, and everyone who knocks will have it opened.
He bore our sins in his body upon the stake, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed because of his wounds (stripes).
Be subject to God! Resist [Satan] the Devil and he will flee from you.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away. For if I do not go away the helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send it to you. (Greek: autos: it)
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately corrupt. Who can understand it?
We do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our infirmities (weaknesses). He was tested in all things like ourselves. Yet he was without sin!
Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the marriage feast.
You are the salt of the earth. If its taste goes away, how will you restore it? It is good for nothing. All you can do is throw it on the ground and walk on it.
God's Son is the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his being. He sustains all things by his powerful word. After Jesus purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion walks about, seeking whom he may devour (consume).
Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. We do not know what we should pray for, as we should. The Spirit [of God] makes intercession with groaning that cannot be spoken.
Beloved let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
That which the Father gives me will come to me. I will not reject him who comes to me.
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
I will send the helper from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which proceeds from the Father to bear witness of me.
Observe the love the Father gave to us that we should be called the children of God. That is what we are! For this reason the world does not know us. This is because it did not know him.
Mary Magdalene arrived at the tomb early on the first day of the week while it was still dark. She saw the stone was taken away from the tomb.
Peter opened his mouth, and said, I truly perceive that God shows no partiality.
He told them all: If any man would come after me let him deny himself. Let him take up his stake (of self-denial) daily, and follow me.
Philip answered: Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is not sufficient for everyone to take a little.
Shortly after that he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees. They were there to eat on the Sabbath. They watched him.
Then he returned to Nazareth the place where he was raised. He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day. This was his custom. There he stood up to read.
I left you in Crete for this purpose, that you should correct the things that were defective, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave you orders.
Jesus answered them: Truly I tell you the Son can do nothing by himself. He sees the Father do something and then he does it. Whatever the Father does the Son does in like manner.
Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod. Astrologers arrived in Jerusalem from the east.
You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you with all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, praises to God, and spiritual songs. Sing with gratitude in your hearts to God.
Know this first that no prophecy of scripture is for private interpretation.
I pray, not for these alone but for those who will believe in me through their word.
Joseph was already in Egypt. The total number of Jacob's descendants was seventy.
If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve Jehovah.'
My little children, I write you these things that you may not sin. If any man sin, we have an Advocate (intercessor) (comforter) (helper) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous!
On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and shouted in a loud voice: If any man thirst let him come to me and drink.
Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,
Jesus answered: If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.
Christ liberated us for freedom (moral liberty). Stand fast therefore, and do not become entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
O how you have fallen from heaven, you morning star (shining one), and son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who conquered nations!
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived there they went to the synagogue of the Jews.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
There are three that testify: (Latin Vulgate: tres testimonium: three that testify.)
All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Likewise, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
The first account I composed, O Theophilus, was about all that Jesus did and taught,
Later Jesus found him in the temple and told him: Now that you are healed do not sin anymore and avoid worse things happening to you.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
What shall we then say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Jesus knew before the feast of the Passover that the time had come for him to leave this world and return to his Father. He loved his own who were in the world to the very end.
For no prophecy ever came by the will of man! Men spoke from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death. Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, that we might walk in the newness of life.
Along the way he entered a village. A woman named Martha received him into her house.
My beloved, you have always obeyed, not just in my presence, but now much more in my absence. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Upon arrival this one will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.
You pay special attention to the one wearing the fine clothes, and say: Sit here in a good place. Then you say to the poor man: Stand there, or Sit under my footstool.
Jesus answered: If a man loves me, he will obey my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and dwell with him.
Watch out for the false prophets. They are disguised as sheep. But in their hearts they are vicious wolves.
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant (proud).
Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy he gave us a new birth to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Jesus was praying. When he finished one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.
He chose us through him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love.
He spoke an illustration to them emphasizing the need to pray and not become tired:
In my Father's house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
When the full time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Jesus replied: Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.
Let us consider one another to encourage love and good works:
If there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affection (tender mercy) and compassions,
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what communion does light have with darkness?
Solomon spoke to all Israel. He spoke to the commanders of regiments and battalions, judges, every prince, and to the heads of Israel's families.
Do not be deceived. God is not mocked! A man will harvest what he sows.
Look to (consider without distractions) Jesus, the Leader (Predecessor) and Finisher (Perfecter) of our faith. He despised the shame. He endured the stake for the joy that was set before him. Then he sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Blessed are the merciful and compassionate, for they will receive mercy and compassion.
When they had eaten Jesus said to Simon Peter: Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said: Yes Lord; you know I have affection for you. Jesus said to him: Feed my lambs.
Jesus replied: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not hunger. The one who puts active faith in me will never thirst.
I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink. And do not worry about your body, what you will wear. Is life worth more than food? And is the body worth more than clothes?
He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. We considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
From one person he made every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. He determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation.
She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus (Jehovah (YHWH) is salvation), because he will save his people from their sins.
What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.
He (God) put all things in subjection under his feet, and made him head over all things to the congregation,
The Jews asked him: What sign would you show us seeing that you do these things?
We have heard that which was from the beginning. We have also seen it with our own eyes. We looked at it and touched it with our hands. It is the Word of life.
Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest.
I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us.
He did not know who healed him for Jesus quietly left the crowd.
For this cause God gave them up to vile affections for even their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature.
Now to him that is able to do far more abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
He rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love (the Son he dearly loves).
Teach them to observe all the things I have commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
Mercy, peace and love be multiplied to you.
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw (discerned) Jehovah seated on a throne, high and exalted. The train of his robe filled the Temple.
You are among those called to Jesus Christ.
You men of Israel hear these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God came among you with miracles and wonders and signs. God did these by him in your midst, as you also know:
Jesus was full of God's Holy Spirit when he returned from the Jordan. Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness.
Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
Jesus therefore said to them again: May you have peace. As the Father sent me, even so I send you.
Blessed (Greek: makarios: happy, blessed) are those conscious of their spiritual need, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Some of his disciples said to one another: What is this he says, a little while, and you see me no more and again a little while and you will see me because I go to the Father?
One of the Pharisees asked him to dine with him. He went to the Pharisee's house and sat down to eat.
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that when he is revealed we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.
I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it. From before him the earth and heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
Jesus said: The time has come. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the good news.
Be subject (obedient) (subordinate) to one another in reverence of Christ.
Many have attempted to write an orderly narrative about the things that have taken place.
The Lord appointed seventy disciples and sent them in groups of two into every city and place where he was about to go.
Seeing great masses of people, he went up to the mountain. When he was seated his disciples came to him.
When a man has sexual intercourse with another man as with a woman, both men are doing something disgusting and must be put to death. They deserve to die!
They had no child for Elizabeth was barren and they both were well advanced in years.
However, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, search for me, and turn from their evil ways, I will hear their prayer from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their country.
Know this also that in the last days perilous (dangerous) times will come.
You cannot serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other. You will be loyal to one master and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money (wealth) (material possessions).
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to man. God is faithful and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your limits. He will make a way out, that you will be able to endure it.
The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.
[Jesus said: Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do.](This verse not found in older manuscripts.) They cast lots and divided his garments among themselves.
It was early in the morning on the first day of the week. They went to the tomb with the spices that they had prepared.
We have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, so let us hold fast our confession.
Do not have any other god.
Judah and Tamar were the father and mother of Perez and Zerah. Perez was the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Ram,
You did not choose me. I chose you and appointed you. You should go and bear fruit and your fruit should remain. Whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Peter said: Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the money from the land sale?
Brothers, I declared the good news to you. You have received it and should continue strong in it.
([Psalm of David]) The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made.
Be careful! Do not display your righteousness (good works) before men to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward with your heavenly Father.
From childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to make you wise to salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus.
After John was locked in prison Jesus went to Galilee and preached the Good News of God to the people.
Now when they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: Men and brothers, what shall we do?
I say love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse; and he who sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
Truly I tell you, he who exerts active faith in me will do the works that I do. In fact he will do greater works than these. I go to the Father.
Do for others the same as you would have them to do for you. That is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.
The time is coming, proclaims Jehovah, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
You have condemned, and you have killed the righteous one. He does not resist you.
These signs will accompany those who believe. They will cast out demons in my name. They will speak with new languages.
In reply Jesus answered: It is written; man shall not live on bread alone, but on all (everything) (every word) (every utterance) (every declaration) that proceeds from the mouth of Jehovah. (Deuteronomy 8:3)
He existed in the form (shape and nature) of God but did not try to be equal with God. He did not even consider it!
Brothers, if someone is caught in any kind of wrongdoing, those of you who are spiritual should set him right. But you must do it in a gentle way. And keep an eye on yourselves, so that you will not be tempted, too.
But he gives more grace. The scripture said, God resists the proud, but gives grace (loving-kindness) to the humble.
I tell you who listen, love your enemies and do good to those who hate you.
See to it that no one enslaves you by means of philosophy and worthless deceit of human wisdom according to tradition of men. It is according to the elementary principles of the world, and not from Christ.
The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The good news of the kingdom will be preached in the entire world for a witness to all the nations and then the end will come.
It will come to pass in the last days, says God, I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh. (Greek: apo, from) Your sons and your daughters will prophesy (proclaim God's Word). Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
You should love Jehovah your God with all your heart, and with all your being (with every breath you take) (your life), with your entire mind and with all your strength. (Deuteronomy 6:4)
The virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel, which means: God (God-like one) is with us. (John 1:18)
The fullness of divine nature lives in Christ's bodily form. (Greek: theotes: essence and nature of God) (Only the Son of God could have divine attributes, the inherited qualities from the Father)
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.
He came to his own. They did not receive him!
Pursue peace and holiness with all people, for no man will see the Lord without it.
For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first.
The things written in earlier times were written for our instruction, that we through endurance and the encouragement from the Scriptures might have hope.
The Spirit explicitly says that some will fall away from the faith (truth) in later times. Spirits and doctrines of demons will seduce them,
He will make a firm covenant with many for one week (time period of seven). In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offerings to cease. The one that makes desolate will come upon the wing of abominations. At the end that which is decreed will be poured out upon the one lying desolate.
Adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity (hatred) (hostility) toward God? Whoever would be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets.
All men will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.
Give and it shall be given to you. You will receive a good measure. It will be pressed down, shaken together, running over and they will give it to you. For with the measure that you measure out it will be measured to you also.
This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have love, I have become like loud sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.
He who does not love does not know God for God is love.
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens. You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and of the household of God.
When they were gathered together he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem. They were to wait for the promise of the Father that he spoke about.
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice!
For everything there is a season. There is a time for every purpose under the sun.
For the preaching of the stake is foolishness to those who perish. It is the power of God to us who are saved.
I give them eternal life. They will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.
I am amazed that you so quickly turned away from the One who called you by the grace of Christ. You turned to different good news.
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil. God was with him.
Then he will tell those on his left: 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the ever-burning fire that is prepared for the Devil and his [fallen] angels.
You know this, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger.
He is the propitiation (Greek: hilasmos: atonement, compensation) for our sins. Not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
He faithfully executed the priest's duties before God.
There were prophets and teachers in the congregation at Antioch. This included: Barnabas, and Simeon called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
He gave thanks. Then he took the bread, broke it and gave it to them, saying: This represents my body that is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
He is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the beginning (commencement), the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence (first place).
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness. This is through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue (excellence).
Let no man say when he is tempted: God tempts me. God cannot be tempted with evil, and he tempts (entices) (tests) (trys) no one.
The day came when heavenly beings appeared before Jehovah (YHWH). Satan was there among them.
God's angel said to Philip: Arise, and go toward the south the way that goes from Jerusalem unto Gaza through the desert.
to Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
The man who endures under trial is blessed. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
This was to come from one man and him as good as dead. There were born children, as many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as uncountable as the sand by the seashore.
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many and are one body, so also is Christ.
God has not given us a spirit of timidity (fear), but of power and love and discipline.
He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others:
While we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
It is like a man going to another country. He called his servants and put them in charge of his property.
All of us have become unclean, and all our righteous acts are like permanently stained rags. All of us wither like leaves, and our sins carry us away like the wind.
But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.
May they all be united (in agreement) as one. Just as you, Father, are with me, and I am with you. Help them be united with us! That way the world may believe that you sent me.
Ram the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon.
Jesus stood by the Lake of Gennesaret as the crowds pressed in upon him in order to hear the word of God.
You believe that there is one God. You do well: the demons also believe, and shudder.
There arose false prophets among the people. There will be false teachers among you! They will privately bring in destructive heresies (contrary doctrines), denying even the Master who bought them. They bring swift destruction on themselves.
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praise.
The list of ancestors of Jesus Christ, descendant of David and Abraham:
The congregation that believed was of one heart and mind. No one claimed his or her own possessions for everything was common property.
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful mockers.
The woman said to him: Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
It does not! I tell you; if you do not turn from your sins, you will die as they did.
He is able to save completely those who approach God through him, because he is always alive to intercede for them.
When they met they asked him: Lord will you restore the kingdom to Israel at this time?
For the Son of man also came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
God saw all that he had made. It was very good. There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
Therefore let all the house of Israel know for sure that God has made that same Jesus, whom you impaled, both Lord and Christ. (Acts 10:36)
You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.
Jesus responded: Have I been with you so long a time and you do not know me Philip? He who has seen me has discerned (experienced) (perceived) the Father. And you say, show us the Father?
The scribes and the Pharisees watched to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. They looked for a way to accuse him.
If you remain with me, and my words remain with you, ask whatever you will, and it will be done for you.
That which is born from the flesh is flesh and that which is born from the Spirit is spirit.
Jesus answered: The first is, Hear, O Israel; Jehovah our God is one God (Jehovah).
We are all like sheep. We have gone astray! Each of us has turned to his own way. Jehovah has caused the iniquity (sin) of all of us to be laid on him.
I say through the grace given to me that every man among you should not think more highly of himself than he ought to think. But to think soberly, just as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.
He said: These are my words that I spoke to you, while I was yet with you. All things must be fulfilled. They are things that are written in the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, and the Psalms, concerning me.
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Be perfect (mature), even as your Father in heaven is perfect (mature). (Leviticus 19:2)
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of God.
Do not seek revenge. Never hold a grudge against any of your people. Instead, love your neighbor as you love yourself. I am Jehovah.
Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.
Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world! If my kingdom were of this world my servants would fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews. My kingdom is not from this domain.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others more important than you.
However, our citizenship is in heaven. We also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
After Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices so they could anoint him.
Many of you should not be teachers, my brothers. You know that we will receive a heavier (stricter) judgment.
In him we live, and move, and have our existence. Your own poets have said: For we are also his offspring.
For you have had five husbands. The one you have now is not your husband, this is true.
When Jesus received the vinegar, he said, it is finished. He bowed his head, and he stopped breathing.
The holy women of old, who hoped in God, adorned themselves this way, being submissive to their own husbands.
He said to the woman: I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.
Throw all your anxiety upon him, because he cares for you.
This is the message we heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
The sun rises with scorching heat and withers the grass. The flower falls off and its beauty perishes. So also the rich man will fade away in his pursuits.
According to the gift you have received, minister among yourselves, as good stewards of the increased grace (divine influence) (love) of God.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you! You will not be a priest to me since you have forgotten the Law of your God. Therefore, I will forget your children.
That day two of them traveled to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse. Test me, said Jehovah of Hosts, and see if I will open the windows of heaven and pour out showers of blessing upon you until there is no more want.
Do not think I came to bring peace on the earth. I came not to bring peace, but a sword.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake.
The same was in the beginning with God.
You have heard it was said, 'You should not commit adultery.'
For our presentation (exhortation) is not based on error, or of uncleanness, or in deceit.
Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.
The King will answer: 'To the extent that you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me.'
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares Jehovah.
He told me: My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities (frailities), that the power of Christ may rest upon me (cover me like a tent) (descend upon me) (abide with me). (Isaiah 40:29-31)
You who are chosen and foreknown by God the Father. You have been sanctified by the Spirit to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood. Grace and peace be greatly increased to you.
I testify to every man who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book.
This is about his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who came from the seed of David according to the flesh.
I will bless those who bless you. I will curse whoever curses you. All the people on earth will be blessed through you.
One of the other scribes came to him with a question: What commandment is the first of all?
It came to you even as it did. Everywhere in the entire world it bears fruit and it increases in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace (loving-kindness) of God in truth.
It is the spirit that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I spoke to you are spirit and life.
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land Jehovah your God gives you.
For you formed my inward parts. You wove me in my mother's womb.
Include self-control with your knowledge. Supply patience to your self-control. Your patience should be helped by godliness.
Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock.
The Spirit itself (Greek:autos ho pneuma) (itself the Spirit) bears witness with our spirit (mind and heart), that we are children of God.
Do not murder.
By this we know love, because he (Jesus) gave his life for us. We ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
He saw a man who was blind from birth.
He replied: Today I tell you this. You will be with me in paradise.
Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. Corruption may not inherit incorruption.
Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek Jehovah. Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug out.
being justified freely by his grace (as a gift) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
For I received from the Lord that which I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread.
But whoever drinks from the water that I give him will never thirst. The water that I will give him will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Then God said: I give you every plant that bears seed on the face of the entire earth. I also give you every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
I saw in the night-visions someone like a SON OF MAN came with the clouds of heaven. He came to the Ancient of Days. They brought him near before him.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed (set apart) for the good news of God,
After this I saw a great crowd that no man could number. It was from all nations, and tribes, and people, and tongues. It stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes. They had palm branches in their hands.
Truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs up some other way is a thief and a robber.
A fire devours before them and behind them a flame burns! The land is like the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yes, none have escaped them.
Have I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage. Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed; for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.
Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
Come now, let us reason together (make things right) (correct matters) between us! Says Jehovah. Though your sins are like scarlet, they will become as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will become as white as wool.
Faithful is the saying: If a man seeks the office of overseer, he desires a good work.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.
While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country to Ephesus, and found some disciples.
Do not pray like the hypocrites! They want everyone to see them in the houses of worship and on the street corners. I assure you they have been paid in full.
You have heard it said, 'You should love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' (Leviticus 19:18)
For you brothers, were called for freedom; only do not use your freedom for an occasion to the flesh. Serve one another through love!
The great dragon was thrown down, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was hurled down to the earth, and his angels with him.
This Book of the Law will not depart out of your mouth. You must meditate (intensely study) (think deeply) on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. Then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
God called the expanse heaven. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.
For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly (abundantly) supplied to you.
Whatever you do, work at it without reservation, as to God, and not to men.
For this cause I bow my knees to the Father.
Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,
Therefore imitate God like beloved children.
He brought them out and asked: Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I also saw the people who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image. They had not received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
With prayer and supplication pray at all times in the Spirit. Watch with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones.
The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!
At that time Michael will stand up. He is the great prince who stands for the children of your people. There will be a time of trouble that has not happened since the beginning of nations. Then your people will be delivered, every one whos name is found written in the book.
Jehovah saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become. Every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil and cling to good.
These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. By believing you may have life in his name.
In like manner, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. Even if your husband does not obey God's word, he may be won without a word by observing the way you live.
What do you reason O man? When you judge these things, and you also do them, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?
Peter came to him and said: Lord, How many times may my brother do wrong against me, and I forgive him? Seven times?
When he found him, he brought him to Antioch. They met with the congregation for a whole year. They taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
The custom was to draw lots to see who served in the temple. It was his turn to enter into the temple of God and burn incense.
No one has ever ascended into heaven but the Son of man who descended from heaven.
When they had not yet been born nor performed anything good or vile, so the purpose of God regarding the choosing would continue without dependence on works but on the One who calls.
Then Jesus was baptized and came up from the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened. He saw God's Spirit coming down like a dove.
Jehovah God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for Jehovah. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
The woman of Samaria asked: How is it that you being a Jew ask for a drink from me? I am a woman of Samaria. [The Jews did not associate with Samaritans.] (Not in early manuscripts.)
As they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed, and broke it; and he gave to the disciples. Then he said: Take, eat; this is (represents) (means) (exemplifies) my body.
Several days later Jesus returned to Capernaum. The word spread that he was home.
Then Jesus told his disciples: If any man wants to follow me (be mine), let him deny (disown) himself, and take up his stake and follow me (Greek: akoloutheo moi, let him be following me) (accompany me) (be in the same way with me).
Jesus traveled to parts of Caesarea Philippi. He asked his disciples: Who do men say that the Son of man is?
A member of the crowd said: Teacher, help my brother divide the inheritance with me.
I saw an angel come down from heaven. He had the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
Everyone who has an active faith in him may have everlasting life.
A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived at Bethany where his sisters Mary and Martha lived.
I am Jehovah. I have not changed! You are the sons of Jacob. You have not yet been destroyed!
You have been buried with him in baptism. You were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof is the way of death.
When you read this you can understand my insight into the secret of Christ.
We preach Christ to everyone. With all possible wisdom we warn and teach them in order to bring each one to God as a mature individual in union with Christ.
Not only that, but we also rejoice in our tribulations knowing that tribulation produces endurance.
You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with your entire mind and with all your strength.
Whoever obeys the whole law and yet stumbles in one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
It is in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal.
Everyone who practices (exercises) sin also commits lawlessness, because sin is lawlessness.
He that has my commandments, and obeys them loves me. My Father will love the person who loves me. I will love him and disclose myself to him.
If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It would be better to enter into life maimed then, having two hands to be destroyed in the ever-burning trash fires in the Valley of Hinnom. (Greek: Gehenna)
My brothers, keep the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. Do not favor one person over the other.
But the rich must be glad when God humbles them. This is because they will wither like wildflowers and pass away.
Some men came down from Judea to teach the brothers. They said: You cannot be saved unless you become circumcised according to the custom of Moses.
The god of this age (world) (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement) has blinded the minds of unbelievers that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.
Children oppress my people! Women rule over them. O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray. They confuse the direction of your paths.
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in which (Greek: en hos) (in which) (Greek: hos, he ho) (whereby) (which) you were sealed to the day of release by ransom.
Wait no longer! Get up and be baptized and have your sins washed away by praying to him.'
Do not fear little flock for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
As he traveled someone ran to him, kneeled and asked him: Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit everlasting life?
Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.
The world was made through him. He was in the world and the world did not recognize him.
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone to preach?
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
One day a large number of tax collectors and other outcasts came to listen to Jesus.
For this you were called because Christ also suffered for you. He left you an example (a copy for imitation) (a model) that you should follow in his steps.
We all, with unveiled face, behold as in a mirror the glory of God and are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, exactly as from God's Spirit.
I tell you, believe that you receive what you pray for and you shall have it.
I pray that I might by the will of God successfully come to you.
He then spoke to both his disciples and the crowd. He said: If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his stake and follow me.
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling.
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the holy ones in union with Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and ministerial servants:
By speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in all things to him. For he, Christ, is the head.
The kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
The God that made the world and all things in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He does not live in temples made with hands.
You have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled (defiled) their garments. They will walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
He made this undeserved kindness abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence (insight).
I wrote these things so you who believe in the name of the Son of God may know you have everlasting life.
God tested Abraham. He said to him: Abraham! Abraham replied: Here I am.
You should be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also forgave you through (by means of) Christ.
Shake off the dust that clings to your feet, from that city, so they may know that the kingdom of God came near.
Do not fear for I am with you! Do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.'
I exhort the elders among you. I too am an older man and a witness of the sufferings of Christ. I am also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed.
There must go forth a twig out of the stump of Jesse. A branch (sprout) (shoot) (descendant) from his roots will bear fruit.
The testimony is this that God gave us everlasting life and this life is in his Son.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death. There will be no more sorrow nor crying. There will be no more pain! The former things have passed away.
The entire world had one language and common words.
She followed Paul and cried out: These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.
Then I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven. He had everlasting good news to preach to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people.
YOU ARE MY WITNESSES, DECLARES JEHOVAH! I have chosen you as my servant so that you can know and believe in me and understand that I am the one who did this. No god was formed before me, and there will be none after me.
Do not fear those who kill the body. They are not able to take away your [everlasting] life. Instead, fear him who is able to destroy both life and body in the ever-burning fires. (Greek: Gehenna: continuously burning trash fires in the valley of Hinnom.)
Since the day we heard about you, we have not ceased to pray and make request for you. We pray for you to be filled with the [intimate accurate] knowledge (discernment) (recognition) of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding. (Philippians 1:9) (John 17:3)
He presented himself alive to them after his suffering. He gave many convincing proofs. He appeared to them during forty days speaking about the kingdom of God.
Let no man judge you in food or in drink or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day.
It reveals the righteousness of God from faith-to-faith for it is written: The righteous shall live by faith.
Behold, he comes with the clouds. Every eye will see him, and those who pierced him; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn over him. So it will be, Amen.
As they praised God, they had favor with all the people. God added to the congregation daily those being saved.
For you have not received a spirit of bondage again causing fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Father, Father! (Chaldee: Abba, meaning father).
Soon Jesus came from Nazareth in the province of Galilee. John baptized Jesus in the Jordan River.
We were assigned as heirs predetermined according to his purpose. He works all things according to his direction and will.
While one said, I belong to Paul; and another, I belong to Apollos; are you not fleshly human beings?
The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are, and will be tormented day and night forever.
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. You, who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Let us not grow tired of doing good things for in due season we shall harvest, if we do not faint.
Adam had sexual intercourse with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said: With the help of Jehovah I have brought forth a man.
I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot endure them now.
Be happy with Jehovah and he will provide you with the desires of your heart.
I baptize you with water because of your repentance. He that comes after me is mightier than I. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire. I am not even good enough to carry his sandals.
You have been given a new birth, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and endures.
When Jesus began to teach he was about thirty years old. Jesus was the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,
He answered: Love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your life, with all your strength and with all your mind. (Feelings and total existence) (Might and total thinking capacity) And you should love your neighbor as yourself. (Deuteronomy 6:5) (Leviticus 19:18)
Mary said: My life magnifies Jehovah my God. (1 Samuel 2:1)
This is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
He also declared your love to us in the Spirit.
that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith.
The secret of godliness is great and it is without controversy. 'He (Jesus Christ) was manifested (revealed) in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, and seen by angels. He preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, and received up in glory.'
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Add brotherly kindness to your godliness. And to your brotherly kindness add love.
Thomas answered: My Lord and my God! (John 1:18; 10:36; 20:17)
Hold firmly to the true words that I taught you, as the example for you to follow. Remain in the faith and love that are ours in union with Christ Jesus.
For this reason God highly exalted him, and gave to him the name that is above every name, (Relative authority given by Jehovah God, the Father to His Son) (Philipians 2:11)
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth. Speak what is good for understanding as the need may be, that it may give grace (divine favor) to those who hear.
No one knows the day and the hour (the period of time). The angels of heaven do not know. The Son does not know. Only the Father knows!
You see I send the promise of my Father upon you. You are to wait in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.
Jesus said: Do not touch me for I am not yet ascended to the Father. Go to my brothers, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and you're Father, and my God and your God. (Revelation 3:12)
Jesus spoke these things and lifted up his eyes to heaven. He said: Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that the son may glorify you.
What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?
Behold, I send my messenger! He will prepare the way before me. Seek Jehovah! He will suddenly come to his Temple along with the messenger of the covenant. He is one you desire, behold, he comes, said Jehovah of Hosts.
Some people there gave him an account of how Pilate killed some Galilaeans while they offered sacrifices.
Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Give thanks to God the Father through him.
You were told in the past, do not murder (kill). Any one who murders will be brought to trial.
You have heard it said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
All those who believed stayed together. They held all things in common.
You will be filled with joy, and many will be happy at his birth.
Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded (uncertain) (doubter) (skeptic).
Grow in the unmerited favor and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
Little children, it is the last hour! You heard that the antichrist is coming. Even now many antichrists have come. That is how we know that it is the last hour.
When you see the disgusting abomination of desolation (unclean thing) spoken about through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that reads understand),
Listen to the word of Jehovah, offspring of Jacob, all the families in the house of Israel.
In all things I gave you an example. You by laboring should help the weak. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus: It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.
I solemnly tell you, heaven and earth would pass away before one small letter (detail) will pass away from the Law. All things must be accomplished.
Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
The day of Jehovah will come as a thief. The heavens will pass away with a great noise. The elements shall be dissolved with intense heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up (destroyed). (Joel 2:31) (Zephaniah 1:14)
Remember that you were once people of the nations in the flesh. You are called uncircumcision by that which is called circumcision, in the flesh, made by human hands.
We know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love! He who continues with love lives with God and God lives with him.
You learned about Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf.
Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He presented himself this way.
In these lay a great crowd of sick people, of blind and lame waiting for the water to bubble up.
The offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to Jehovah like it was in the old days, in ancient years.
Jehovah spoke his word to me, Jeremiah, He said:
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.
I solemnly charge you in the sight (presence) of God, and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
This letter is from James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes that are scattered.
This is the ACCOUNT OF NOAH. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. He walked with God.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the intimate sharing of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
Therefore, let us not sleep like others do. But let us watch and be sober.
We have the word of prophecy made sure (steadfast) (firm)! You do well that you pay attention [to God's Word] as you would to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the daystar rises, in your hearts.
Put on the full armor (every implement) of God, that you may be able to stand against the cunning (inventive) (clever) methods of the devil.
The Jews intensified their efforts to kill him for these reasons: he broke the Sabbath and he also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.
If we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any message other than that which we preached to you, let him be accursed (condemned) (expelled).
For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine. Having their ears tickled, they will accumulate teachers who follow after their own lusts.
Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
It is the Spirit of the truth. The world cannot receive it. The world does not see or know it. You know it because it lives with you and will be with you.
This is the account of when Jehovah (YHWH) God created the heavens and the earth.
Call to me and I will answer you. I will tell you grand and impressive things, things you do not know.'
It was the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea. Herod served as tetrarch of Galilee. Herod's brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis. Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene.
Shepherds in the same country were in the field keeping watch by night over their flock.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
You will keep the steadfast mind in perfect peace, because he trusts (hopes) in you.
God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit (whole heart and mind) in the good news of his Son. Without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers.
Hear this word you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria. You oppress the poor. You crush the needy. You say to your masters (husbands) (lords), Bring us drink.
Be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise.
This is for the perfecting (equipping) (preparing) of the holy ones, for the work of ministering, for the building up of the body of Christ:
And I came to you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
For if these things are yours and abound in you they will keep you from being inactive or unfruitful regarding the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us approach the throne of grace (loving-kindness) with confidence, that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.
He offered us his precious and exceedingly great promises. Through these you may become partakers of the divine nature. You will escape from the corruption that is in the lust-filled world.
Let no man look down on your youth. Be an example to the believers in speech and conduct, in love, in faith and chasteness.
We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether it is good or bad.
Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.
But Peter, stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them: You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem let me explain this to you. Listen to my words.
Now I beseech you, brothers, mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine you have learned and avoid them.
Owe no man any thing but to love one another. He that loves another has fulfilled (obeyed) the law.
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to reprove (refute) (rebuke) those who contradict.
John baptized with water; but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit in a few days, He said.
We have such confidence through Christ toward God.
If therefore the Son will make you free, you will be free indeed.
Titus was with me and he was not persuaded to be circumcised. He is a Greek.
It will come to pass, that whoever will call on the name of Jehovah will be saved. (Joel 2:32)
Bear one another's burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.
Obey those who lead you. Submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your lives and must account for this. Obey them that their work may be a joy and not a burden; that would be without gain for you.
([Psalm of David]) Bless Jehovah with all my being. With all that I am I praise his holy name!
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous having salvation. He is humble, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the son of a she ass.
Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
He looked at his disciples and said: Blessed are you who are poor for yours is the kingdom of God.
For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or people of the nations, whether we are bond or free; we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
They all continued united in earnest prayer. The women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers were also there.
He who sins is of the devil. For the devil sinned from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was made known (manifested), that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Speak to one another in psalms and praise and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to Jehovah.
Yet we know that a man is not righteous by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. We believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be righteous by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law. The works of the law justify no one.
It is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, and it has not entered into the heart of man, the things God prepared for those who love him. (Isaiah 64:4)
You took this man and delivered him by the determined counsel (purpose) and foreknowledge of God. With wicked hands you impaled and murdered him.
Do not steal.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments. His ways are beyond human understanding!
One man said: Master, what good thing must I do, so that I may have eternal life?
I do not consider my life of any account. It is not dear to me so that I may finish the race, and I may accomplish the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to preach the good news of the grace of God.
If I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and I will receive you to myself, for where I am you may also be.
And from Jesus Christ, who is the Faithful Witness, and the firstborn from the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood.
Now if their fall into sin means riches to the world, and their decrease means riches of the nations how much more will their full number mean?
Jesus said to him: All things are possible to him who has faith.
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching.
No flesh will be justified before God by works of the law. Knowledge of sin comes from the law.
Tell the Israelites: 'When you bring an offering to Jehovah, bring your offering of animals from the herd or the flock.
A young woman who had a spirit of divination met us as we were going to the place of prayer. She brought her masters much gain by soothsaying.
At Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the congregation to him.
Behold, I show you a secret. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth.
I will tell my heavenly Father about everyone who confesses me (witnesses to others about me) before men.
I want to know him and the power of his resurrection. I want to know the fellowship of his sufferings and become conformed to his death.
Holy Spirit descended on all who heard the message Peter spoke.
But your wrongs have separated you from your God. Your sins have made him hide his face so that he does not even hear you.
They continued daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house. They ate their food with gladness and singleness of heart.
(John 8:1-11 is not found in early manuscripts.)
May the very God of peace completely sanctify you (make you holy). I pray to God that your entire spiritual being, your mind and body, is preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Cease your endeavors and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations! I will be glorified in the earth!
To the angel of the congregation in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation says this:
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they stay unmarried like me.
I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of kindness and of supplication. They will look to the one whom they pierced; and they will mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son. There will be a bitter lamentation for him, like one who grieves for his first-born.
Hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts. It comes through Holy Spirit, which is God's gift to us.
for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.
John was also baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there. People came and were baptized.
I came to strike fire upon the earth and what do I care if it is already kindled?
If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.
About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Which (translated) means: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
There is no fear in love. Perfect (mature) love throws out (expels) fear because fear involves restraint (punishment). He who fears is not made perfect (mature) (complete) through love.
The Sabbath was made for man, said Jesus, and not man for the Sabbath.
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a priest named Zechariah. He was of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron. Her name was Elizabeth.
Almost all things are by the Law purified with blood. There is no forgiveness unless blood is poured out.
though if I am delayed, so that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the household of God, which is the congregation of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
There are different gifts, but the same Spirit.
I want you to know, brothers, that I was often determined to come to you, but was hindered until now, that I might have some fruit among you as well as the rest of the nations.
When I am lifted up from the earth I will draw all men to myself.
On their way, they came to a body of water and the eunuch said, See, here is water. What prevents me from getting baptized?
Brace up your minds. Remain sober, and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
The heavens and the earth and their immense arrangement were completed.
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him! He cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Josiah was the father of Jechoniah and his brothers. They lived at the time when the people were exiled to Babylon.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.
First, I thank my God for all of you through Jesus Christ, for your faith is reported throughout the whole world.
It is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
But Jehovah said to Samuel: Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature. I have rejected him. God does not see as man sees. Man looks at the outward appearance. Jehovah looks at the heart (inner man).
You have endured and are patient. You suffer for my name's sake and have not grown weary.
They will give account to him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.
God displayed Christ publicly as propitiation (atonement) by his blood through faith. It demonstrated his righteousness. It was through the forbearance of God that he passed by the sins that had taken place before.
God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. This is because he rested from all the work of creation he had done.
When the kindness of God our Savior, and his love toward man, appeared,
The Father loves the Son. He shows him all of the things he does. He will show him greater works than these. And you will marvel.
You have accepted Christ Jesus as Lord. Now walk (live) in union with him.
For as many of you who were baptized into Christ put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ.
The Spirit and the bride say: Come And let him who hears say: Come. And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him drink the water of life freely.
You should continue to love one another as brothers.
Six days before the Passover Jesus traveled to Bethany. This was where Lazarus lived. He was the man Jesus raised from the dead.
They strengthened the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith. They said, We must enter the kingdom of God through much tribulation.
There will be signs in sun and moon and stars. The earth will experience distress of nations in disarray for the roaring of the sea and the waves.
There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
He told those who sold doves: Take these things away. Do not make my Father's house a house of merchandise.
([Sons of Korah]) God is our refuge and strength, a ready help in times of trouble.
Take a census of all the males of the congregation of Israel by families and households. List every man by name
If you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
I was circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Look at ships. They are large and are driven by rough winds. Yet a very small rudder can control them, wherever the captain wills.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. They may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. Its sovereignty will not be entrusted to another people. It will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it will stand forever!
Jesus was directed by God's Spirit to return to Galilee. His reputation spread through out the region.
So if he called them 'god-like ones,' those to whom the word of God came, and the Scriptures may not be annulled,
See my hands and my feet that it is I. Touch me and see. A spirit does not have flesh and bones like I have.
Therefore leaving the elementary truths of the doctrine of Christ let us move on to maturity. Let us not lay again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God.
The Lord Jehovah will do nothing without revealing his secrets to his servants the prophets.
Whatever you ask in my name, I will do. That way the Father may be glorified because of the Son.
Children are an inheritance from Jehovah. They are a blessing from him.
Peter and John went up to the temple at the hour of prayer. It was the ninth hour.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, says Jehovah (YHWH) God, the one who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty (all ruling) (universal sovereign). (Isaiah 48:12)
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.
When evening arrived Jesus said: Let us go over to the other side.
He (Jesus Christ) gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify a people for himself, who are special people, zealous for good works.
You heard me say I will go away and I will come again to you. If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father. The Father is greater than I!
What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.
Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat.
You are of God, my little children. You have overcome them because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.
Behold, the day is coming, said the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land. Not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.
War broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels.
God gave them up to uncleanness because of the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and witnessed about the truth that is in you and that you walk in truth.
They sing a new song, saying: You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you bought persons for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
The King will say to those on his right hand: 'Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
We know that we know him, when we obey his commandments.
and for your fellowship in participation of the good news from the first day until now.
You are worthy, Jehovah our God, to receive glory and honor and power: for you have created all things, and because of your will they are and were created.
I am the door. If any man enters through me he will be saved. He will go in and out and find pasture.
Nicodemus asked: How can these things be?
I tell you, it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
No one knows the day or hour. The angels in heaven do not know. The Son of God does not know. Only the Father knows!
Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, and to be ready to do every good work,
One day Moses was taking care of the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock across the desert to Sinai, the holy mountain.
Abram was ninety-nine years old. Jehovah appeared to him and said: I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.
Even so, faith without works is dead. It is alone and by itself!
He has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom he made the ages (Greek: aion: ages of time, perpetuity, worlds, generations, human entities).
When all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. He prayed and heaven was opened.
Jesus said: Be careful, do not covet, for life does not come from your possessions.
These will go away into ever-burning fire (everlasting cutting off) (death) (total destruction) (doom) (punishment) (everlasting penalty), but the righteous to everlasting life.'
We have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
He will be great. He will be called the Son of the Most High. Jehovah God will give him the throne of his father David. (Isaiah 11:1-10)
We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels and crowned with glory and honor for suffering death. By the grace of God he tasted death for every man.
([Psalm of David]) Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want.
We have gifts that differ according to the grace that is given to us. Whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
After these things Jesus and his disciples traveled to the land of Judea where he stayed with them and baptized.
I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there are no divisions among you. You should be perfectly joined together (united) in the same mind and thought.
The days were approaching for his ascension. He was determined to go to Jerusalem.
This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking).
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves him that causes the birth also loves him that is born.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work.
People were bringing little children to him so he could touch them. His disciples turned them away.
About eight days after he said these things he took Peter, John and James, and went up into the mountain to pray.
The law of Jehovah is perfect. It gives new life. The testimony of Jehovah is dependable. It makes the simple wise.
Accept the man who has a weak faith, but not to entertain doubtful thinking.
I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys.
Now judgment is on this world. Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened. The moon will not give light. The stars will fall from heaven. The powers of the heavens will be shaken.
I ask you: 'will you rob and defraud God? Of course not, yet you are robbing and defrauding me!' 'How have we robbed and defrauded?' You ask. 'In the matter of tithes and offerings.'
Here is my servant, whom I have strengthened. Here is the one I have chosen, with whom I am pleased. I have filled him with my Spirit, and he will bring justice to every nation.
Remain with me, and I with you. The branch cannot bear fruit by itself. It must remain on the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain with me.
Those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect. But I press on, that I may obtain that for which Christ Jesus also obtained.
When they had ordained elders in every congregation they prayed with fasting. They commended them to God, on whom they believed.
He that knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains.
By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God. The visible has been made out of things that were not visible.
Jesus sent the disciples in a boat to the other side of the sea. He stayed there until he sent the crowd away.
That which is known about God is clear to them, for God revealed it to them.
Jesus told his disciples: There was a rich man who had a servant who managed his property. The rich man learned that the manager was accused of wasting his master's money.
You receive your salvation as the outcome of your faith.
I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I will also bring them. They will hear my voice and they will become one flock, one shepherd.
This was a symbol pointing to baptism, which now saves you. It is not the washing off of bodily dirt, but the promise made to God for a good conscience. It saves you through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
He has established a day (time) in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man [Jesus] whom he has ordained. Of that he gives proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead. (John 5:22) (Isaiah 2:4) (Acts 10:42)
Six stone water jars were placed there to honor purification rules of the Jews. Each contained more than twenty gallons.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation (atonement) (sacrificial payment) for our sins.
I love you just as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.
Rivers of living water will flow from the innermost being of the man who believes in me. This is according to the scriptures.
The law came through Moses. Loving-kindness and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Or did he say it for our benefit? This is written for our benefit without a doubt! He who plows should plow in hope. Likewise he who threshes in hope should be a partaker of his hope.
There is no memory of former things. Those who follow will not remember those who are yet to come.
I do not want you to be ignorant of this secret, lest you should be wise in your own conceits (estimation). Blindness has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations comes in.
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh. They said: Jehovah, the God of Israel, says: 'Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to me in the wilderness.'
The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with cut stones. The fig trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.
Every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who trust him.
Whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled (thrust) (thrown) into the lake of fire.
The Pharisees asked: When does the kingdom of God come? Jesus answered them: The kingdom of God does not come with observable signs.
He replied: It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has set within His own authority.
([Psalm of David]) The fool says in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah) (Psalm 10:4). They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things.
When he was raised from the dead his disciples remembered that he said this. Then they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus said.
The Pharisees and some of the scribes came from Jerusalem to gather around Jesus.
so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Boast no more so proudly. Remove arrogance from your mouth. Jehovah is a God of knowledge, and he measures his actions (deeds).
When they believed what Philip preached about the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
I said to you that you would die in your sins. Unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins!
Saul agreed to his death. There was at that time a great persecution against the congregation at Jerusalem. All but the apostles were scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
The Father does not judge any man for he has given all judgment to the Son.
What will a man profit, if he gains the whole world, and gives up his life? What will a man give in exchange for his life?
He explained to them all the Scriptures about the things concerning him. He spoke about Moses and all the prophets.
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
I am no more in the world but they are in the world. I come to you Holy Father. Keep them in your name, which you have given to me, that they may be one*, even as we are. *(Greek: heis; united in purpose and love)
Jehovah God commanded the man: You are free to eat from any tree in the garden.
I witnessed to both Jews and to Greeks about repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the congregation, he being the savior of the body.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain. But you say Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
If we continue to (practice) (deliberately persist in) sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins.
When Israel was a young man, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.
Do not forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Psalm 90:1, 4)
We love, because he first loved us.
([Psalm of David]) Jehovah is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the stronghold of my life. Who is there to be afraid of?
Just as iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another.
Then Jesus prayed: I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and have revealed them to children. (Acts 2:36)
The Jews responded: It took forty-six years to build this temple and you will raise it up in three days?
The word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision: Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield. Your reward shall be very great.
Jesus said to her: Woman what have I to do with you? My hour has not arrived.
As you would like men to do to you, do also to them.
For there is no difference between Jew and Greek. The same Lord (God) of all is abounding in riches for all who call on him.
You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus is the chief corner stone.
([Psalm of David]) The earth and all it contains the world and those who dwell in it belong to Jehovah.
Now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace. This is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
There will be false Christs and false prophets. They will show great signs and wonders so that many will be misled. This includes some of the chosen ones.
You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.
I wrote this very thing that when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice. I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.
A man named Job lived in Uz. He was a man of integrity! He was decent, he respected God, and he stayed away from evil.
God is a not man that he should lie. He is not a son of man who changes his mind. Does he ever promise and not fulfill? Does he ever speak and not act?
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the holy ones who are at Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
As they ministered to God, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said: Set Barnabas and Saul apart for the work I have called them.
Brothers, I could not yet have obtained it. But one thing I do, I forget the things that are behind, and stretch forward to the things that are ahead.
Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation.
I am not saying this because I am in need; for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.
I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of slavery in Egypt.
THE REVELATION GOD GAVE TO JESUS CHRIST, so that he could tell his servants the things that must soon take place. Christ then sent his angel to communicate the symbolic message to his servant John.
Do not let anyone deceive you about this in any way. That day will not come unless apostasy (a falling away from truth) takes place first, and the man of lawlessness (sin), the man of destruction, is revealed. (2 Timothy 4:3)
This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be.
What is this that he says: A little while? We do not know what he says.
The Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are in agreement (accord) (concurrence) (harmony). (Latin Vulgate: Spiritus et aqua et sanguis et tres unum: Spirit, water, and blood are united.)
Honor Jehovah and serve him sincerely and in truth. Get rid of the gods that your ancestors used to worship in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve only Jehovah.
Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah,
Jesus and his disciples went into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples: Who do men say I am?
We who were first to hope in Christ should serve to the praise of his glory.
In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Much more, now justified by his blood, we will be saved from the wrath of God through him.
Jesus responded to them: Truly I tell you if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you will not have life in yourselves.
Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said: Men of Athens, in all things, I perceive that you are very religious.
You came to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and precious with God.
He told another illustration, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like a man that sowed good seed in his field.
For we have many members in one body and all members do not have the same function.
He told them: It was because of your lack of faith: Truly I say to you, if you have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you.
However, I tell you that whoever looks at a woman with lustful thoughts commits adultery with her in his heart.
I have confidence in your obedience. I write you, knowing that you will do beyond what I say.
if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the congregation of God?
I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake. I do my share in behalf of his body, the congregation, to provide what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ.
Everything born from God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world, even our faith.
If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
You once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the power (authority and jurisdiction) of the air, the spirit that is now active in the sons of disobedience.
Do not commit adultery.
Because you are sons, God sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
After he said this he breathed on them and said: Receive Holy Spirit.
Jesus responded to them: My Father works until now and I work.
You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
For as woman is from man, even so is man also from woman. But all things are from God!
Pray without ceasing.
He answered: Have you not read, that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female?
Now I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother [without cause] shall be guilty before the court. Whoever speaks to his brother with words of contempt shall receive condemnation before the Sanhedrin [Supreme Court]. Curse your brother and you will be guilty enough to be destroyed by fire, with the burning trash, at the Valley of Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem (Greek: Gehenna).