but continue to prove all things until you can approve them, and then hold on to what is good.

For whoever lacks these qualities is blind -- or short-sighted-- and forgetful of the cleansing that he has received from his former sins.

Now when King Herod heard of it, he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him.

Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to stimulate faith in God's chosen people and to lead them on to a full knowledge of religious truth,

Dearly beloved, do not be astonished that a test by fire is coming upon you, as though something strange were happening to you,

Now when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

let us, without ever wavering, keep on holding to the hope that we profess, for He is to be trusted who has made the promise,

who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather, who was raised from the dead, is now at God's right hand, and is actually pleading for us.

When they heard this, they had no answer to make, but gave God the glory, saying, "So God has given even the heathen the repentance that leads to life."

About three hours later, his wife came in, without having learned what had taken place.

We ought always to be thanking God for you, brothers dearly loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's consecration of you and through your faith in the truth,

I have no greater spiritual blessing than this, to hear that my children are living by the truth.

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city that has kept on murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to her, how often I have yearned to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you refused!

Just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without good deeds is dead.

"Blessed are the lowly in mind, for they will possess the land.

for the promise belongs to you and your children, as well as to all those who are far away whom the Lord our God may call to Him."

Always be joyful.

Then I heard a loud voice from the throne say: "See! God's dwelling place is with men, and He will live with them,

though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, it was His disciples --

And now, dear children, I repeat, you must continue to live in union with Him, so that if He is unveiled, we may have unshaken confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame when He comes.

While they were talking to the people, the high priests, the military commander of the temple, and the Sadducees came down upon them,

Now you will keep silent and be unable to talk until the day when this takes place, because you did not believe what I told you, for it will be fulfilled at the proper time."

And he makes all, great and small, rich and poor, freemen and slaves, have a mark stamped on their right hands or on their foreheads,

For the Lord's sake submit to all human authority; to the emperor as supreme,

About four thousand people were there. Then He sent them away.

Now I introduce to you our sister Phoebe, who is a deaconess in the church at Cenchreae,

You must continue telling the people what is proper for wholesome teaching:

and the Holy Spirit came down upon Him in bodily form as a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, "You are my Son, my Beloved! In you I am delighted!"

which contained all kinds of four-footed animals, reptiles, and wild birds.

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.

Just at that moment the disciples came up and asked Jesus, "Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"

For though the law could not do it, because it was made helpless through our lower nature, yet God, by sending His own Son in a body similar to that of our lower nature, and as a sacrifice for sin, passed sentence upon sin through His body,

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ have obtained the same precious faith that we have:

When they were near Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage and the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples on ahead,

Only you must practice living lives that are worthy of the good news, so that whether I come and see you or stay away, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, and that with one purpose you are continuing to cooperate in the fight for faith in the good news.

and said: "I solemnly say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you can never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life, And the dead were judged by what was written in the books in accordance with what they had done.

So He has been exalted to God's right hand and has received from His Father, as promised, and poured out upon us the Holy Spirit, as you see and hear.

At Joppa there was a woman, a disciple, whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek means Dorcas, that is, Gazelle. She had filled her life with good deeds and works of charity, which she was always doing.

for from the inside, that is, from the hearts of men, designs for doing evil come, sexual immorality, stealing, murder,

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.

Then He left there and went into the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house and wanted no one to know that He was there. But He could not escape public notice.

You younger men, on your part, must be submissive to the elders. And you must all put on the servant's apron of humility to one another, because God opposes the haughty but bestows His unmerited favor on the humble.

Dearly beloved, while I was doing my best to begin writing you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write and urge you to carry on a vigorous defense of the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's people.

"You people, stubborn in will, heathenish in hearts and ears, you are always resisting the Holy Spirit, as your forefathers did, too.

They will perish, but you always remain; they all will grow old like a coat,

Every time I remember you I thank my God,

Since then it still remains that some are being admitted to it and that those who first had the good news told to them were not admitted because of disobedience,

For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's splendor, with His angels, and then He will pay back to everyone in accordance with what he has done.

Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, in sincere love for the brotherhood you must love one another heartily and fervently,

Since He did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not with Him graciously give us everything else?

But the one who does wrong without knowing it will be lightly punished. Much will be demanded from anyone to whom much has been given; yea, people will demand much more from anyone to whom they have entrusted much.

Now this is the testimony which John gave when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem, to ask him, "Who are you?"

Then the wild beast was captured and with him the false prophet who performed wonders in his presence, by which he led astray those who let the mark of the wild beast be put on them and worshiped his statue. Both of them were hurled alive into the fiery lake that burns with brimstone.

and keep your feet in straight paths, so that limbs may not be dislocated, but instead be cured.

For people who live by the standard set by their lower nature are usually thinking the things suggested by that nature, and people who live by the standard set by the Spirit are usually thinking the things suggested by the Spirit.

When Jesus saw it, He was indignant, and said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them from it, for to such as these the kingdom of God belongs.

I am happy to find that some of your children are living by the truth, just as we had been commanded from the Father to do.

For I too am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave to do this, and he does it."

And whenever you stand and pray, if you have anything against anybody, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven too may forgive you your shortcomings."

Then He sat down in front of the collection-box and was watching the people as they dropped their money into it. And many rich people were dropping in large sums.

Come now, you rich people, weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are sure to overtake you.

Meanwhile the people kept waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the sanctuary.

"Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for He has come and brought His people deliverance;

For the body does not consist of one part but of many.

Such people should consider this: When I arrive for action I shall do exactly what I said I would in my letters when far away.

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called to be God's people, in fellowship with those who anywhere call upon the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

Whoever persistently rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings has something to judge him -- the very message I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

as also in another passage He says: "You are a priest forever, belonging to the rank of Melchizedek."

I am telling the truth as a Christian man. I am telling no lie, because my conscience enlightened by the Holy Spirit is bearing me witness to this fact,

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted God's message, they sent Peter and John there.

and you will always be thanking the Father who has qualified you to share the lot of His people in the realm of light.

For whoever is ashamed of me and my teaching in this unfaithful, sinful age, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of him, when He comes back in His Father's splendor with the holy angels."

But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people;

Then He called His twelve disciples to Him, and gave them authority over foul spirits, so that they could drive them out, and so that they could cure any disease or ailment.

So then, through Christ, let us always offer God the sacrifice of praise; that is, the speech of lips that glorify the name of God.

Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may grant you the Spirit to give wisdom and revelation which come through a growing knowledge of Him,

Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came in.

For love to God means this, to practice obedience to His commands, and His commands are not burdensome,

Then Jerusalem and all Judea, even the whole Jordan district, continued to go out to him

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into business and make money,"

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us, so that we can have an answer to give to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

But in reality Christ has been raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep.

And the Spirit told me to go with them without any hesitation at all. These six brothers, too, went with me, and we all went into the man's house.

He said to them, "Come! Follow me, and I will make you fishermen for catching men."

After this, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, "I am thirsty."

For we hold that a man is brought into right standing with God by faith, that observance of the law has no connection with it.

Then, through your union with Christ Jesus, the peace of God, that surpasses all human thought, will keep guard over your hearts and thoughts.

So, as far as I can, I am eager to preach the good news to you at Rome, too.

But at the judgment the punishment will be lighter for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

so that we may not be babies any longer, or like sailors tossed about and driven around by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men through their cunning in inventing new methods of error.

Then Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God!

For wherever your treasure is, there too your heart will be.

So you, who were once estranged from Him, and hostile in disposition as shown by your wrongdoings, He has now reconciled

He left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.

"Glory to God in highest heaven! And peace on earth to men who please him."

Now I take up the matters about which you wrote me. It may be good thing for a man to remain unmarried;

About that time Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, in order to do them violence.

until we all attain to unity in faith and to perfect knowledge of the Son of God, namely, to a mature manhood and to a perfect measure of Christ's moral stature;

They were surprised to see the courage shown by Peter and John and to find that they were uneducated men, and especially untrained in the schools, but they recognized the fact that they had been companions of Jesus,

For in their hearts people exercise the faith that leads to right standing, and with their lips they make the acknowledgment which means salvation.

Early in the morning, long before daybreak, He got up and went out to a lonely spot, and stayed praying there.

"For the kingdom of heaven is like an owner of an estate who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

But just as this thought occurred to him, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for it is through the influence of the Holy Spirit that she has become an expectant mother.

Uzziah the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,

And it is my prayer that your love may overflow still more and more, directed by fuller knowledge and keener insight,

to our sister Apphia, to our fellow-soldier Archippus, and to the church that meets at your house:

When they were getting near Jerusalem, that is, were at Bethphage and Bethany in front of the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples on ahead,

The apostles returned and met Jesus and reported to Him everything, how many things they had done and taught.

And he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God.

So, my dear brothers, continue to be firm, incapable of being moved, always letting the cup run over in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the service of the Lord is never thrown away.

For since the law cast only a shadow of the blessings to come and did not possess the reality itself of those blessings, the priests with the same sacrifices that are perpetually offered year after year cannot make perfect those who come to worship.

And often he craved to fill himself with the carob-pods which the hogs were eating, and nobody gave him a bite.

For I would not have you, brothers, to be ignorant of the fact that though our forefathers were all made safe by the cloud, and all went securely through the sea, and in the cloud and the sea

He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less."

continuing with eager earnestness to maintain the unity of the Spirit through the tie of peace.

Then He began again to teach by the seashore. And a crowd gathered around Him so great that He got into a boat and was sitting in it, just off the shore, while all the people were on the land close to the sea.

Yet heaven must retain Him till the time for the universal restoration of which God in the early ages spoke through the lips of His holy prophets.

For it was not mere stories of fancy that we followed when we told you of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of His majesty.

so they asked him, "Why are you baptizing then, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

proved to be God's Son in power by the resurrection from the dead -- I mean, Jesus Christ, our Lord,

They went into Capernaum, and as soon as the first Sabbath came, He went into the synagogue and began to teach.

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty Himself and the Lamb Himself are its temple.

For the love of Christ continuously constrains me, because I am convinced that as One died for all, all have died,

There came to Him a leper, begging Him on his knees, saying to Him, "If you want to, you can cure me."

Finally, you must all live in harmony, be sympathetic, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, humble,

who was given up to death because of our shortcomings and was raised again to give us right standing with God.

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

do you not make improper distinctions among yourselves and prove to be critics with evil motives?

The young man said, "I have kept all these commandments; what more do I lack?"

Keep on curing the sick, raising the dead, healing lepers, and driving out demons. You received and gave no pay; you must give and take none.

Then why should you criticize your brother? Or, why should you look down on your brother? Surely, we shall all stand before God to be judged,

So if, in the very act of presenting your gift at the altar, you remember that your brother has something against you,

Now I want to remind you, though you know it all already, that although the Lord had saved a people out of the land of Egypt, He afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

For a piece of ground that drinks in the rains so frequently falling on it, and continues yielding vegetation useful to those for whose sakes it is cultivated, receives from God His blessings.

John the Baptizer appeared in the desert and was preaching a baptism conditioned on repentance to obtain the forgiveness of sins.

So then whenever we have an opportunity, let us practice doing good to everybody, but especially to the members of the family of faith.

But may it never be mine to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world!

For in union with Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor lack of it counts for anything; but only faith that is spurred on to action by love.

Let the peace that Christ can give keep on acting as umpire in your hearts, for you were called to this state as members of one body. And practice being thankful.

As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our final muster before Him, we beg you, brothers,

Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth.

For I am demolishing arguments and every barrier that is raised against the genuine knowledge of God, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ,

For it is God's will that you should keep pure in person, that you should practice abstinence from sexual immorality,

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin.

It was just after that that Jesus Christ for the first time clearly taught His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem and submit to many forms of suffering at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, but be raised to life on the third day.

Then death and the underworld were hurled into the fiery lake, This is the second death -- the fiery lake.

Such persuasion never came from Him who called you.

This is why I am suffering so, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am absolutely sure that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

Blessed be the man who reads them and the people who hear the messages of this prophecy read, and heed what is written in it, for the time is near.

Jesus answered, "Look out that no one misleads you about it,

And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.

to see you again, that I may feel the fullest joy

For if while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, it is much more certain that since we have been reconciled we shall finally be saved through His new life.

For to be thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means death, but to be thinking the things suggested by the Spirit means life and peace.

But about midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

Not at all! If that were so, how could He judge the world?

I am the good shepherd myself. I know my sheep and my sheep know me,

So that the rest of mankind may earnestly seek the Lord, Yes, all the heathen who are called by my name, says the Lord,

What are we then to conclude? Is the law sin? Of course not! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I should not have learned what sin was, for I should not have known what an evil desire was, if the law had not said, "You must not have an evil desire."

training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

Any man who divorces his wife to marry another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries the woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Then I heard another voice from heaven say: "Come out of her, my people, so that you may not share in her sins and suffer from her plagues.

and I have the same hope in God that they cherish for themselves, that there is to be a resurrection of the upright and the wicked.

For we know, brothers so beloved by God, that He has chosen you,

In a way of just such power as this the Lord's message kept on spreading and prevailing.

On saying these things He went out with His disciples across the Ravine of Cedars to a place where there was a garden, and He went into it with His disciples.

But for Christ's sake I have counted all that was gain to me as loss.

He said to them, "I was looking at Satan failing like a flash of lightning from heaven.

Jesus saw him lying there, and when He found out that he had been in that condition for a long time, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

If anyone is willing to keep on doing God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God, or merely expresses my own ideas.

and you have forgotten the encouragement which is addressed to you as sons: "My son, refrain from thinking lightly of the discipline the Lord inflicts, and giving up when you are corrected by Him.

For He Himself is our peace, He is the one who has made us both into one body and has broken down the barrier that kept us apart;

Then He walked on a few steps and threw Himself upon His face, and in this attitude continued to pray, and say, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass by me; and yet, I pray, not what I want but what you want."

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

For it was through Christ that God was reconciling the world to Himself instead of debiting men's offenses against them, and He has committed to me the message of this reconciliation.

Here is scope for wisdom! Let anyone who has the mental keenness calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is the number of a certain man; his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

For another reason too, we, as far as we are concerned, are constantly giving thanks to God; that is, when you received the message you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the message of men but as the message of God, as it really is, which keeps on working in you who believe.

Now when the period of their purification ended, in accordance with the law of Moses, they took Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord, to do as it is written in the law of the Lord,

one God and Father of all, who is over us all, who pervades us all, and who is within us all.

there is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

John expressly answered them all, "I am baptizing you in water only, but there is coming the One who is stronger than I am, whose shoestrings I am not fit to untie. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire;

"Blessed are those who suffer persecution for being and doing right, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

This is why the good news was preached to the dead too, that they may be judged in their physical nature as men are, but live in the Spirit as God does.

And I shall keep on doing as I am, in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who want an opportunity to show themselves on a level with me in the matters of which they boast.

And He said to them, "I solemnly say to you, some of the people standing here will certainly live to see the kingdom of God come in its power."

That same day Jesus went out of His house and was sitting on the seashore.

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Let us be glad and shout for joy and give Him glory, because the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.

Then He went all over Galilee, as He continued teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or malady among the people.

But when Christ came as the High Priest of good things that have already taken place, He went by way of that greater and more perfect tent of worship, not made by human hands, that is, not belonging to this material creation,

Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the reapers are scarce.

But the tax-collector stood at a distance and would not even lift his eyes to heaven, but continued to beat his breast, and say, 'O God, have mercy on me, a sinner!'

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you forbid on earth must be what is already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth must be what is already permitted in heaven."

so that we are always boasting of you among the churches of God for your patient endurance and faith, in spite of your persecutions and crushing sorrows which you are enduring.

Dearly beloved, do not follow bad examples but good ones. Whoever practices doing right is God's child; whoever practices doing wrong has never seen God.

After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Wake up! Tenderly take the child and His mother, and escape to Egypt; stay there until I further direct you, for Herod is going to search for the child to destroy Him."

and beg Him to grant you, in accordance with the riches of His perfect character, to be mightily strengthened by His Spirit in your inmost being,

Now the fact is, religion with contentment is a means of great gain.

which is not really another one; only there are certain people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of Christ upside down.

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

They have gone out from our own number, but they did not really belong to us; for if they had, they would have stayed with us. It was to show that none of those who went out really belonged to us.

so that you may always approve the better things, and be men of transparent character and blameless life,

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, who is the source of all things and the goal of our living, and but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom everything was made and through whom we live.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to recognize the True One; and we are in union with the True One through His Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.'

Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-gate there is a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five porticoes,

but in accordance with the Holy Being who has called you, you must prove to be holy too,

For, although I did cause you sorrow by that letter, I do not now regret it; although I did regret it then. I see that the letter caused you sorrow only for a time.

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Timothy,

For the kingdom of God does not consist in what we eat and drink, but in doing right, in peace and joy through the Holy Spirit;

Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ.

"The kingdom of heaven is like a pot of gold which was buried in a field, which a man found and buried again; and for joy over it he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

how can we escape, if we pay no attention at all to a salvation that is so great? This is so because it was first proclaimed by the Lord Himself, and then it was proved to us to be valid by the very men who heard Him themselves,

He at once called them. They left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men, and went after Him.

This is why I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of the heathen --

up to the day when through the Holy Spirit He gave the apostles whom He had chosen their orders, and then was taken up to heaven.

In like manner after supper He took a cup of wine, and said, "This cup of wine is the new covenant to be ratified by my blood, which is to be poured out for you.

First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, living in accordance with their evil passions,

After one or two warnings to a man who is factious, stop having anything to do with him,

canceled the note that stood against us, with its requirements, and has put it out of our way by nailing it to the cross.

For I know that if this earthly tent in which I live is taken down, I have a building in heaven which comes from God, a house not built by human hands but eternal.

Make it a habit to give thanks for everything, for this is God's will for you through Christ Jesus.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

They landed in the neighborhood of Gerasa, which is just across the lake from Galilee.

These people all died victoriously as a result of their faith, although they did not receive the blessings promised; that is, because they really saw them in the far-off future and welcomed them, and so professed to be only foreigners and strangers here on earth.

Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing?

Stop judging superficially; you must judge fairly."

Therefore, my Christian brothers, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Messenger and High Priest whom we profess to follow,

For at one time you were darkness itself, but now in union with the Lord you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

So strip yourselves of everything impure and all the evils prevailing around you, and in humble spirit welcome the message which when rooted in your hearts is able to save your souls.

For those who depend on what the law commands are under a curse, for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who does not continue in all the commands that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

For sin must not any longer exert its mastery over you, for now you are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor.

Then a great symbol was seen in heaven -- a woman clothed in the sun with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

who is ever willing for all mankind to be saved and to come to an increasing knowledge of the truth.

They were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah, for example, obeyed Abraham and called him master. You have become true daughters of hers, if you practice doing right and cease from every fear.

From that time Jesus continued to preach and say, "Repent! For the kingdom of heaven is near."

Jesus kept visiting all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and curing every sort of sickness and ailment.

As soon as they left the synagogue, they went home with Simon and Andrew, in company with James and John.

If we say "We have fellowship with Him," and yet live in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

But I want you to realize the fact that Christ is the Head of every man, that the husband is the head of the wife, and that God is the Head of Christ.

Jesus burst into tears.

although you do not have the slightest knowledge of tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? It is really nothing but a mist which appears for a little while and then disappears.

so as to train the younger women to be affectionate wives and mothers,

"I have made your very self known to the men whom you have given me out of the world. At first they were yours, but now you have given them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

Azor the father of Sadoc, Sadoc the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud,

You see that a man is shown to be upright by his good deeds, and not merely by his faith.

"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, then understand that her devastation is near.

for they had utterly transformed the reality of God into what was unreal, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

So, to keep me from being over-elated, there was sent upon me a physical disease, sharp as a piercing stake, a messenger of Satan, to continue afflicting me, and so to keep me, I repeat, from being over-elated.

But you, on your part, must continue to abide by what you have learned and been led to rely upon, because you know from whom you learned it

I have baptized you in water, but He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

Now they traveled on through Amphipolis and Apollonia until they reached Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue.

There were some Greeks among those who were coming up to worship at the feast,

Then he showed me a river of living water, clear as crystal, which continued to flow from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Then He came down with them and took His stand on a level place, where there was a great throng of His disciples and a vast crowd of people from all over Judea and from Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear Him and to be cured of their diseases.

You must remove all bitterness, rage, anger, loud threats, and insults, with all malice.

And Jesus left the temple, and was going away, when His disciples came up to Him, to show Him the temple buildings.

and so people will not say, 'Look! Here it is,' nor, 'There it is,' for the kingdom of God is within you."

Then Jesus again spoke to them in stories, and said:

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil in it.

So God's message continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem continued to grow rapidly; a large number, even of priests, continued to surrender to the faith.

To Him who can make you strong in accordance with the good news I bring and in accordance with the message preached about Jesus Christ, in accordance with the uncovering of the secret which for ages past had not been told,

when He raised Christ from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in heaven,

And whenever you pray, you must not keep on repeating set phrases, as the heathen do, for they suppose that they will be heard in accordance with the length of their prayers,

For the life-giving power of the Spirit through union with Christ Jesus has set us free from the power of sin and death.

Brothers, my heart's good will goes out for them, and my prayer to God is that they may be saved.

Then Pilate said to Him, "So you are a king then?" Jesus answered, "Certainly I am a king. For this very purpose I was born, for this very purpose I have come into the world, to testify for truth. Everybody who is a friend of truth listens to my voice."

But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the message to which they bore testimony, because they did not cling to life but courted death.

For although you ought to be teachers of others because you have been Christians so long, you actually need someone to teach you over and over again the very elements of the truths that God has given us, and you have gotten into such a state that you are in constant need of milk instead of solid food.

So the pastor must be a man above reproach, must have only one wife, must be temperate, sensible, well-behaved, hospitable, skillful in teaching;

but the man who does no work, but simply puts his faith in Him who brings the ungodly into right standing with Himself, has his faith credited to him as right standing.

On the Lord's day I was in the Spirit's power, and I heard a voice like a trumpet behind me say:

so that in the name of Jesus everyone should kneel, in heaven, on earth, and in the underworld,

they will take snakes in their hands; even if they drink anything poisonous, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well."

So the angel came to her home and said, "Congratulations, you highly favored woman! The Lord be with you!"

But he must ask in faith, without a doubt, for the man who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is whirled and swayed by the wind.

Do not remain neglectful of hospitality to strangers, for by it some have entertained angels without knowing it.