Reference: New Testament Synonyms
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A short list of Synonyms is added, embracing some Greek and English words which could not well be considered in the Dictionary. It is important that those who believe in the verbal inspiration of scripture should study the words used by the Holy Spirit as far as they have the means.
The few Synonyms here given may be regarded as samples, and may lead the reader into a new and interesting field of study, which if followed out would embrace the careful consideration of hundreds of other words. Such a study will not merely tend to the acquisition of a more correct knowledge of the letter of the divine oracles, but it will form the mind in the thoughts of the God who deigns to use human language to convey to our souls what the Holy Spirit Himself calls "the deep things of God." 1Co 2:10. One who carefully studies such subjects in a proper spirit will be ever learning more of the mind of God as expressed in the scriptures.
Some words not considered here will be found briefly treated in the Dictionary under 'Author, Begotten, Children, Eternal, Godhead, Godliness, Hell, Knowledge, Lord, Man, Natural, New, Ordain, Power, Redemption, Servant, Sin, Washing, etc.'
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But her husband, Joseph, was an upright man and did not wish to disgrace her, and he decided to break off the engagement privately.
But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God!' "
and said to him, "I will give all this to you, if you will fall on your knees and do homage to me." Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must do homage to the Lord your God, and worship him alone!' "
"You have heard that the men of old were told 'You shall not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will have to answer to the court.'
"You have heard that men were told 'You shall not commit adultery.'
"Again, you have heard that the men of old were told, 'You shall not swear falsely, but you must fulfil your oaths to the Lord.'
and as soon as the demon was driven out, the dumb man was able to speak. And the crowds were amazed, and said, "Nothing like this was ever seen in Israel!"
No one who loves father or mother more than he loves me is worthy of me, and no one who loves son or daughter more than he loves me is worthy of me,
Everything has been handed over to me by my Father, and no one understands the Son but the Father, nor does anyone understand the Father but the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all of you who toil and are burdened, and I will let you rest. read more. Let my yoke be put upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble-minded, and your hearts will find rest,
"When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest and can find none.
When anyone hears the teaching of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and robs him of the seed that has been sown in his mind. That is what was sown along the path.
but I tell you, Elijah has come already, and they would not recognize him, but treated him just as they pleased. It is in just that way that the Son of Man is going to be treated by them!"
So the slave threw himself down before him and implored him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you all of it.'
And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'
"You must all drink from it, for this is my blood which ratifies the agreement, and is to be poured out for many people, for the forgiveness of their sins.
And he left them and went away again and prayed a third time, in the same words as before.
A little while after the bystanders came up to Peter and said, "You are certainly one of them too, for your accent shows it!"
And Peter remembered Jesus' words when he had said, "Before a cock crows, you will disown me three times!" And he went outside and wept bitterly.
John the baptizer appeared in the desert, and preached repentance and baptism in order to obtain the forgiveness of sins.
"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, you are God's holy One!"
But whoever reviles the holy Spirit can never be forgiven, but is guilty of an unending sin."
Herodias felt bitterly toward him and wanted him killed. But she could not bring it about,
for they all saw him and were terrified. But he immediately spoke to them and said, "Take courage, it is I. Do not be afraid."
and so you nullify what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many such practices."
And he sat down and called the Twelve in, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."
And in the course of his teaching he said to them, "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes and to be saluted with respect in public places,
But he denied it again. And again a little while after, the bystanders said to Peter, "You certainly are one of them, for you are a Galilean!"
And signs like these will attend those who believe: with my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign tongues;
And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed their message by the signs that attended it.
just as the original eye-witnesses who became teachers of the message have handed it down to us.
That we should be delivered from the hands of our enemies,
Bringing his people the knowledge of salvation Through the forgiveness of their sins.
and she had been a widow until she was now eighty-four. She never left the Temple, but worshipped night and day with fasting and prayer.
And he went all through the Jordan Valley preaching repentance and baptism in order to obtain the forgiveness of sins,
"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,
Simon answered, "Master, we worked all night and caught nothing, but as you tell me to do it, I will put down the nets."
And he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose! Be cured!" And the leprosy immediately left him,
came up behind him and touched the tassel of his cloak, and the hemorrhage stopped at once. Jesus said, "Who was it who touched me?" And as everyone denied having done so, Peter said, "Master, the people are all around you and they are crowding you." read more. But Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, for I know that power passed from me." When the woman saw that she had not escaped his notice, she came forward trembling, and fell down before him, and before all the people told why she had touched him, and how she had been cured at once.
When a foul spirit goes out of a man, it roams through deserts in search of rest, and when it finds none, it says, 'I will go back to my house that I left.'
But he was angry and would not go into the house. And his father came out and urged him.
The Pharisees, who were avaricious, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.
Look at my hands and feet, for it is I myself! Feel of me and see, for a ghost has not flesh and bones, as you see I have."
and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name.
In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine.
So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.
For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.
For he whom God has sent speaks God's words, for God gives him his Spirit without measure. The Father loves his Son, and has put everything in his hands.
You worship something you know nothing about; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews. But a time is coming??t is already here!??hen the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and sincerity, for the Father wants such worshipers.
And a great many more believed because of what he said, and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."
For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.
I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.
and you do not keep his message in your hearts, for you do not believe the messenger whom he has sent.
So they picked them up, and they filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five barley loaves that were left after the people had eaten.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.
Your forefathers in the desert ate the manna and yet they died.
Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.
Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life. Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day.
Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood remains united to me and I remain united to him. Just as the living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who lives on me will live because of me. read more. This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."
This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."
This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."
The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.
So Jesus said to the Twelve, "Do you mean to go away too?" Simon Peter answered, "To whom can we go, sir? You have a message of eternal life,
This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,
I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.
Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.
Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.
Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.
Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."
I tell you, if anyone observes my teaching, he will never experience death." The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'
If those to whom God's message was addressed were called gods??nd the Scripture cannot be set aside??36 do you mean to say to me whom the Father has consecrated and made his messenger to the world, 'You are blasphemous,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?
So the sisters sent this message to Jesus: "Master, your friend is sick."
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.
and if I am lifted up from the ground, I will draw all men to myself."
If anyone hears my words and disregards them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world. Whoever rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings is not without his judge; the very message I have given will be his judge on the Last Day,
Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.
Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? I am not the source of the words that I say to you, but the Father who is united with me is doing these things himself.
Jesus answered, "Anyone who loves me will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him and we will come to him and live with him. No one who does not love me will observe my teaching, and yet the teaching you are listening to is not mine but is that of him who has sent me.
You are pruned already because of the teaching that I have given you.
Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.
They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.
for the Father loves you himself because you love me and believe that I have come from the Father.
"I have revealed your real self to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your message.
for I have given them the truths that you gave me, and they have accepted them and been convinced that I came from you, and they believe that you sent me.
I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth.
But it is your custom to have me release one man for you at Passover time. Do you want me therefore to release the king of the Jews for you?"
Jesus said to her, "You must not cling to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."
"Throw your net in on the right of the boat," he said to them, "and you will find them." They did so, and they could not haul it in for the quantity of fish in it. Then the disciple who was dear to Jesus said to Peter, "It is the Master!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Master, he put on his clothes, for he had taken them off, and sprang into the sea. read more. The rest of the disciples followed in the boat, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards, dragging in the net full of fish. When they landed they saw a charcoal fire burning, with a fish on it, and some bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish you have just caught." So Simon Peter got into the boat, and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three of them, and though there were so many, the net was not torn.
and they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to say in foreign languages whatever the Spirit prompted them to utter.
For you will not desert my soul in death, You will not let your Holy One be destroyed.
For you will not desert my soul in death, You will not let your Holy One be destroyed.
Peter said to them, "You must repent, and every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, in order to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit,
They were amazed to see how outspoken Peter and John were, and to find that they were uneducated men with no advantages. They recognized them as companions of Jesus,
When they had prayed, the place where they were meeting shook, and they were all filled with the holy Spirit, and fearlessly uttered God's message.
God took him up to his right hand as our leader and savior, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
while we devote ourselves to prayer and to delivering the message."
and I will sentence the nation that has enslaved them,' God said, 'and afterward they will leave that country and worship me on this spot.'
So God turned his back on them and left them to worship the starry host, just as the Book of the Prophets says, " 'Was it victims and sacrifices that you offered to me, O house of Israel, Those forty years in the desert? You offered me the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rompha, The images you had made to worship! So I will deport you beyond Babylon.'
But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.
He was a devout man, who feared God, as did all the members of his household. He was liberal in charities to the people, and always prayed to God.
When the angel who had spoken to him was gone, Cornelius called two of his servants, and a devout soldier who was one of his personal attendants,
When Peter actually came in, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and made obeisance to him.
It is of him that all the prophets bear witness that everyone that believes in him will have his sins forgiven in his name."
When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,
Now as evidence that he has raised him from the dead, never again to return to decay, he said this: 'I will fulfil to you my sacred promises to David.'
Now as evidence that he has raised him from the dead, never again to return to decay, he said this: 'I will fulfil to you my sacred promises to David.' For in another psalm he says, 'You will not let your Holy One undergo decay.'
For in another psalm he says, 'You will not let your Holy One undergo decay.'
You must understand therefore, my brothers, that through him the forgiveness of your sins is announced to you, and that through union with him everyone who believes is cleared of every charge of which the Law of Moses could not clear you.
After a long discussion, Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose that of you all I should be the one from whose lips the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.
For Moses for generations past has had his preachers in every town, and has been read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."
For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of.
For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of.
For as I was going about and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an Unknown God.' So it is what you already worship in ignorance that I am now telling you of.
nor is he waited on by human hands as though he were in need of anything, for he himself gives all men life and breath and everything.
so that they might search for God, and perhaps grope for him and find him, though he is never far from any of us.
One night the Lord said to Paul in a vision, "Do not be afraid! Go on speaking and do not give up,
Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and took us to the house of Mnason, a man from Cyprus, one of the early disciples, to spend the night.
There a man named Ananias, a devout observer of the Law, highly respected by all the Jews who lived there,
The next day, as he wished to find out the real reason why the Jews denounced him, he had him unbound and ordered the high priests and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.
As I wanted to learn what charge they made against him, I had him brought before their council,
I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets,
He ordered the officer to keep Paul in custody, but to allow him some freedom, and not to prevent his friends from looking after him.
"I should like to hear the man myself," Agrippa said to Festus. "You shall hear him tomorrow," Festus answered.
the promise in the hope of seeing which fulfilled our twelve tribes serve God zealously night and day. It is about this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused by some Jews.
to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'
As he said this in his defense, Festus called out, "You are raving, Paul! Your great learning is driving you mad!"
but the officer wanted to save Paul, and so he prevented them from doing this, and ordered all who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,
They examined me and were ready to let me go, as I was innocent of any crime that deserved death.
and decisively declared Son of God in his holiness of spirit, by being raised from the dead??esus Christ our Lord,
As God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in spreading the good news of his Son, I never fail to mention you when I pray,
I want you to understand, brothers, that I have often intended to come to see you (though thus far I have been prevented) in order to produce some results among you, as well as among the rest of the heathen.
For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen!
For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen!
They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature.
For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.
For God showed him publicly dying as a sacrifice of reconciliation to be taken advantage of through faith. This was to vindicate his own justice (for in his forbearance, God passed over men's former sins)??26 to vindicate his justice at the present time, and show that he is upright himself, and that he makes those who have faith in Jesus upright also.
for we know that our old self was crucified with him, to do away with our sinful body, so that we might not be enslaved to sin any longer,
I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.
But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.
I do not understand what I am doing, for I do not do what I want to do; I do things that I hate. But if I do what I do not want to do, I acknowledge that the Law is right.
For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right. I do not do the good things that I want to do; I do the wrong things that I do not want to do. read more. But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is not I that am acting, it is sin, which has possession of me. I find the law to be that I who want to do right am dogged by what is wrong.
We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.
We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good.
For they are Israelites, and to them belong the rights of sonship, God's glorious presence, the divine agreements and legislation, the Temple service, the promises,
Not that God's message has failed. For not everybody who is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,
For before the children were born or had done anything either good or bad, in order to carry out God's purpose of selection, which depends not on what men do but on his calling them,
So it depends not on human will or exertion, but on the mercy of God.
"Why, then," you will ask, "does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"
No! This is what it says: "God's message is close to you, on your lips and in your mind"??hat is, the message about faith that we preach.
So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.
I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.
For God revealed them to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God himself.
Do not form any premature judgments, therefore, but wait until the Lord comes back. For he will light up the darkness that now hides things and show what the motives in people's minds are, and then everyone will get from God the praise he deserves.
You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself. So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.
I should like to have everyone be just as I am myself; but each one has his own special gift from God, one of one kind, and one of another.
If one of the heathen invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat whatever is served, without raising any question, as far as conscience is concerned.
As it is, God has arranged the parts, every one of them in the body as he wished them to be.
For if you utter blessings in ecstatic speech, how is an ordinary man to say Amen to your thanksgiving? For he does not know what you are saying.
Hence, if the whole church assembles and they all speak ecstatically, and ordinary people or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are crazy? But if they are all inspired to preach and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is convinced of his sin by them all, he is called to account by them all,
and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own.
A curse upon anyone who has no love for the Lord. Lord, come quickly!
For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.
but my mind could not rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.
and he has qualified me to serve him in the interests of a new agreement, not in writing but of spirit. For what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Their minds were dulled. For to this day, that same veil remains unlifted, when they read the old agreement, for only through union with Christ is it removed.
So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.
For even when I reached Macedonia, my poor human nature could get no relief??here was trouble at every turn; fighting without, and fear within.
I do not mean to be easy upon others and hard upon you,
Even if I have no particular gifts in speaking, I am not wanting in knowledge. Why, I have always made that perfectly clear in my dealings with you.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The life I am now living in the body I am living by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.
It is through union with him and through his blood that we have been delivered and our offenses forgiven,
He has given us perfect insight into his secret purpose and understanding of it, in following out the design he planned to carry out in Christ,
We all lived among them once, indulging our physical cravings and obeying the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were doomed to God's wrath like other men.
for they have become callous, and abandoned themselves to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of vice.
You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.
You must be kind to one another, you must be tender-hearted, and forgive one another just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people.
You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,
and take salvation for your helmet, and for your sword the Spirit, which is the voice of God.
We are the true circumcision, who worship God by his Spirit, priding ourselves only on Christ Jesus, and not relying on physical advantages,
by whom we have been ransomed from captivity through having our sins forgiven.
Yes, you who were dead through your misdeeds and physically uncircumcised, God raised to life with Christ. He forgave us all our misdeeds,
"You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch"??22 referring to things that are all meant to be used up and destroyed? This is to follow mere human rules and regulations.
So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.
You must not lie to one another. For you have stripped off your old self with its ways
You must bear with one another and forgive one another, if anyone has reason to be offended with anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must forgive.
so that your hearts may be strong and faultlessly pure in the sight of our God and Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints!
and to give rest to you who are suffering and to us, when our Lord Jesus appears from heaven, with his mighty angels
the adversary of every being that is called a god or an object of worship, and so overbearing toward them as to enter God's sanctuary and take his seat there, proclaiming himself to be God??5 do you not remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you this?
who wants all men to be saved and to come to know the truth.
I want the men everywhere to offer prayer, lifting to heaven hands that are holy, without any angry disputes.
Do not put young women on the list of widows, for when their youthful vigor comes between them and Christ, they want to marry,
So I would have young women marry and have children and keep house and avoid giving our opponents any excuse for abusing us.
So I would have young women marry and have children and keep house and avoid giving our opponents any excuse for abusing us.
But men who want to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, harmful cravings, that plunge people into destruction and ruin. For love of money is the root of all the evils, and in their eagerness to get rich, some men wander away from the faith and pierce themselves to the heart with many a pang.
He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,
People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent,
But you have closely followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
and revealed at the proper time in his message, through the preaching with which I have been intrusted at the command of God our Savior,
but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of holy life, self-controlled,
and present a wholesome, unobjectionable message, so that your opponent may be put to shame at finding nothing bad to say about us.
He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right. This is what you must teach and urge and insist upon with full authority. No one is to look down on you.
All who are with me wish to be remembered to you. Remember me to all believers who love me. God bless you all.
I would have liked to keep him with me, to wait on me in your place while I am in prison for the good news,
He is the reflection of God's glory, and the representation of his being, and bears up the universe by his mighty word. He has effected man's purification from sin, and has taken his seat on high at the right hand of God's Majesty,
For if the message delivered by angels proved to be authentic, and every violation or neglect of it led to a corresponding penalty,
For the message of God is a living and active force, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing through soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and keen in judging the thoughts and purposes of the mind.
Let us therefore leave elementary Christian teaching alone and advance toward maturity. We must not be always relaying foundations, of repentance for wrong-doing, and of faith in God,
and felt the goodness of the word of God and the strong influences of the coming age,
Therefore, God in his desire to make it perfectly clear to those to whom he made his promise, that his purpose was unalterable, bound himself with an oath,
Such a high priest we needed??odly, blameless, unstained, removed from sinful men and raised above the very heavens;
Even the first agreement provided regulations for worship, and a sanctuary that was fully equipped. For a tent was erected, with the lamp and the table and the presentation bread in the outer part, which was called the sanctuary.
With these arrangements for worship, the priests used constantly to go into the outer part of the tent, in the performance of their rites,
how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?
In fact, under the Law, almost everything is purified with blood, and unless blood is poured out nothing is forgiven.
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to offer these sacrifices, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sin?
Otherwise, would they not have ceased to offer these sacrifices, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sin?
" 'This is the agreement that I will make with them In those later days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws into their minds, And write them upon their hearts,' " he goes on, " 'And their sins and their misdeeds I will no longer remember.' " read more. But when these are forgiven, there is no more need of offerings for sin.
It is faith that enables us to see that the universe was created at the command of God, so that the world we see did not simply arise out of matter.
Faith made him institute the Passover and splash the blood upon the door-posts, to keep the angel that destroyed the firstborn from touching them.
For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness.
Try to be at peace with everyone, and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.
For it is no tangible blazing fire that you have come up to, no blackness and darkness and storm,
for they could not bear the order, "Even a wild animal, if it touches the mountain, must be stoned to death,"
Let us, therefore, be thankful that the kingdom given to us cannot be shaken, and so please God by worshiping him with reverence and awe;
Our altar is one at which those who serve the tent of worship have no right to eat.
Every good gift and every perfect present is from heaven, and comes down from the Father of the heavenly lights, about whom there is no variation of changing shadow. Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.
Of his own accord he brought us into being through the message of truth, so that we might be a kind of first-fruits among his creatures.
You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.
But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;
For they wilfully ignore the fact that long ago there existed heavens and an earth which had been formed at God's command out of water and by water,
The Lord is not slow about his promise, in the sense that some men think; he is really showing his patience with you, because he does not want any to perish, but wishes all men to be brought to repentance.
Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing you, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the same as the message you have heard.
Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing you, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the same as the message you have heard.
The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another.
I will make some who belong to that synagogue of Satan and claim to be Jews when they are not so, but are lying?? will make them come and bow down at your feet, and learn that I loved you.
The four animals have each of them six wings, and they are covered with eyes all over and underneath their wings. And day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is coming."
That is why they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them.
So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
It exercises the full authority of the first animal on its behalf. It makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first animal, whose mortal wound had been healed.
It is also allowed to impart life to the animal's statue so that the animal's statue can speak, and to have all who do not worship the animal's statue killed.
The smoke of their torture will go up forever and ever, and they will have no rest night or day??hese worshipers of the animal and its statue, and any who bear the mark of its name."
Who will not fear and give glory to your name, Lord? For you alone are holy. All the heathen will come and worship before you, for the justice of your sentences has now been shown."
So the first angel went and emptied his bowl upon the earth, and loathsome, painful sores attacked the men who bore the mark of the animal and worshiped its statue.
Then I heard the angel of the waters say, "You are just in pronouncing this sentence, you who are and were, the Holy One;
I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who have accepted the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is what inspires prophecy."
He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
There will no longer be anything that is accursed. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his slaves will worship him;