Reference: New Testament Synonyms
Morish
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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As Joseph her husband was a just man but unwilling to disgrace her, he resolved to divorce her secretly;
He answered, "It is written, Man is not to live on bread alone, but on every word that issues from the mouth of God."
he said, "I will give you all that if you will fall down and worship me." Then Jesus told him, "Begone, Satan! it is written, You must worship the Lord your God, and serve him alone."
You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence,
You have heard how it used to be said, Do not commit adultery.
Once again, you have heard how the men of old were told, 'You must not forswear yourself but discharge your vows to the Lord'.
and when the daemon had been cast out, the dumb man spoke. Then the crowd marvelled; they said, "Such a thing has never been seen in Israel!"
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me:
All has been handed over to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father ??nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and he to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you. read more. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;
When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment and finds none.
When anyone hears the word of the Realm and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart; that is the man who is sown 'on the road.'
Nay, I tell you Elijah has already come, but they have not recognized him ??they have worked their will on him. And the Son of man will suffer at their hands in the same way."
So the servant fell down and prayed him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you it all.'
He replied, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul, and with your whole mind.
this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.
So he left them and went back for the third time, praying in the same words as before.
After a little the bystanders came up and said to Peter, "To be sure, you are one of them too. Why, your accent betrays you!"
Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said, that 'before the cock crows you will disown me three times.' And he went outside and wept bitterly.
"Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? We know who you are, you are God's holy One."
but whoever blasphemes against the holy Spirit is never forgiven, he is guilty of an eternal sin."
Herodias had a grudge against him; she wanted him killed but she could not manage it,
That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."
So he sat down and called the twelve. "If anyone wants to be first," he said to them, "he must be last of all and the servant of all."
And in the course of his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, to get saluted in the marketplaces,
But he denied it again. After a little the bystanders once more said to Peter, "To be sure, you are one of them. Why, you are a Galilean!"
And for those who believe, these miracles will follow: they will cast out daemons in my name, they will talk in foreign tongues,
while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.
exactly as these have been handed down to us by the original eyewitnesses who were in the service of the Gospel Message,
that freed from fear and from the hand of our foes we should worship him
to bring his people the knowledge of salvation through the remission of their sins
and having been a widow for eighty-four years. She was never away from the temple; night and day she worshipped, fasting and praying.
and he went into all the Jordan-district preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins ??4 as it is written in the book of the sayings of the prophet Isaiah, The voice of one who cries in the desert, 'Make the way ready for the Lord, level the paths for him.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,
Simon replied, "Master, we worked all night and got nothing! However, I will lower the nets at your command."
So he stretched his hand out and touched him, with the words, "I do choose, be cleansed." And the leprosy at once left him.
came up behind him and touched the tassel of his robe. Her hemorrhage instantly ceased. Jesus said, "Who touched me?" As everyone denied it, Peter and his companions said, "Master, the crowds are all round you pressing hard!" read more. Jesus said, "Somebody did touch me, for I felt power had passed from me." So when the woman saw she had not escaped notice, she came trembling, and falling down before him she told before all the people why she had touched him and how she had been instantly cured.
When an unclean spirit leaves a man, it roams through dry places in search of refreshment. As it finds none, then it says, 'I will go back to the house I left,'
This angered him, and he would not go in. His father came out and tried to appease him,
Now the Pharisees who were fond of money heard all this, and they sneered at him.
Look at my hands and feet. It is I! Feel me and see; a ghost has not flesh and bones as you see I have."
and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
THE Logos existed in the very beginning, the Logos was with God, the Logos was divine.
So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.
For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.
For he whom God has sent utters the words of God ??God gives him the Spirit in no sparing measure; the Father loves the Son and has given him control over everything.
You are worshipping something you do not know; we are worshipping what we do know ??for salvation comes from the Jews. But the time is coming, it has come already, when the real worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in reality; for these are the worshippers that the Father wants.
and far more of them believed on account of what he said himself. As they told the woman, "We no longer believe on account of what you said; we have heard for ourselves, we know that he is really the Saviour of the world."
The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he is doing himself. He will show him still greater deeds than these, to make you wonder;
Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.
his word you have not kept with you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.
They gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five loaves left over from the meal.
No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).
Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died;
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you.
So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you. He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life (and I will raise him up on the last day),
He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains within me, as I remain within him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live by the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live by me. read more. Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever."
Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever."
Such is the bread which has come down from heaven: your ancestors ate their bread and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live for ever."
What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.
So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go, too?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, who are we to go to? You have got words of eternal life,
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So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:
I know you are Abraham's offspring! Yet you want to kill me, since my word makes no headway among you!
Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.
Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.
Why do you not understand my speech? Because you are unable to listen to what I am saying.
He who belongs to God listens to the words of God; you do not listen to them, because you do not belong to God."
Truly, truly I tell you, if anyone holds to what I say, he will never see death." The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure you are mad. Abraham is dead, and so are all the prophets; and you declare, 'If anyone holds to what I say, he will never taste death'!
If the Law said they were gods, to whom the word of God came ??and scripture cannot be broken ??36 do you mean to tell me, whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?
so the sisters sent to him, saying, "Lord, he whom you love is ill."
[Relocated to follow vs 2] Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus;
Whereupon the Jews said, "See how he loved him!" ??37 though some of them asked, "Could he not have prevented him from dying, when he could open a blind man's eyes?"
He who loves his life loses it, and he who cares not for his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.
But I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."
If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world. He who rejects me and will not receive my words has indeed a judge: the word I have spoken will judge him on the last day,
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds.
Jesus answered, "If anyone loves me he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up our abode with him. He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.
You are already clean, by the word I have spoken to you.
Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours.
They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.
for the Father loves you himself, because you have loved me and believed that I came forth from God.
I have made thy Name known to the men whom thou hast given to me from the world (thine they were, and thou gavest them to me), and they have held to thy word.
for I have given them the words thou gavest me, and they have received them; they are now sure that I came from thee and believe that thou didst send me.
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
Consecrate them by thy truth: thy word is truth.
But it is your custom that I should release a prisoner for you at the passover. Is it your will that I release you the king of the Jews?"
Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"
So he told them, "Throw your net on the right of the boat, and you will have a take." At this they threw the net, and now they could not haul it in for the mass of fish. So the disciple who was Jesus' favourite said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" Hearing it was the Lord, Simon Peter threw on his blouse (he was stripped for work) and jumped into the water, read more. while the rest of the disciples came ashore in the punt (they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards), dragging their netful of fish. When they got to land, they saw a charcoal fire burning, with fish cooking on it, and some bread. Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish you have just caught." So Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty three of them; but for all their number the net was not torn.
and they were all filled with the holy Spirit ??they began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to express themselves.
because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay.
because thou wilt not forsake my soul in the grave, nor let thy holy one suffer decay.
"Repent," said Peter, "let each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins; then you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit.
They were astonished to notice how outspoken Peter and John were, and to discover that they were uncultured persons and mere outsiders; they recognized them as having been companions of Jesus,
At their prayer the place of meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the holy Spirit, speaking God's word fearlessly;
God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.
but we will continue to devote ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the word."
But,' said God, 'I will pass sentence on the nation that has made them slaves, and then they will get away to worship me in this Place.'
So God turned from them, abandoning them to the worship of the starry Host ??as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did you offer me victims and sacrifices during the forty years in the desert, O house of Israel? No, it was the tent of Moloch and the star-symbol of Rephan your god that you carried, figures that you manufactured for worship. So now I will transport you beyond Babylon!
but Saul made havoc of the church by entering one house after another, dragging off men and women, and consigning them to prison.
a religious man, who reverenced God with all his household, who was liberal in his alms to the People, and who constantly prayed to God.
When the angel who spoke to him had left, he called two of his menservants and a religiously minded soldier who belonged to his personal retinue,
Peter was just going into the house when Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshipped him;
All the prophets testify that everyone who believes in him is to receive remission of sins through his Name."
When he came and saw the grace of God he rejoiced, and encouraged them all to hold by the Lord with heartfelt purpose
And as a proof that he has raised him from the dead, never to return to decay, he has said this: I will give you the holiness of David that fails not.
And as a proof that he has raised him from the dead, never to return to decay, he has said this: I will give you the holiness of David that fails not. Hence in another psalm he says, thou wilt not let thy holy One suffer decay.
So you must understand, my brothers, that remission of sins is proclaimed to you through him, and that by him everyone who believes is absolved from all that the law of Moses never could absolve you from.
and a keen controversy sprang up; but Peter rose and said to them, "Brothers, you are well aware that from the earliest days God chose that of you all I should be the one by whom the Gentiles were to hear the word of the gospel and believe it.
for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath."
Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.
Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.
Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.
he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything, for it is he who gives life and breath and all things to all men.
meaning them to seek for God on the chance of finding him in their groping for him. Though indeed he is close to each one of us,
And the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "Have no fear, speak on and never stop,
accompanied by some of the disciples from Caesarea, who conducted us to the house of Mnason, a Cypriote, with whom we were to lodge. He was a disciple of old standing.
Then a certain Ananias, a devout man in the Law, who had a good reputation among all the Jewish inhabitants,
Next day, as he was anxious to find out the real reason why the Jews accused him, he unbound him, ordered the high priests and all the Sanhedrin to meet, and brought Paul down, placing him in front of them.
I certainly admit to you that I worship our fathers' God according to the methods of what they call a 'sect'; but I believe all that is written in the Law and in the prophets,
He gave orders to the officer to have Paul kept in custody but to allow him some freedom and not to prevent any of his own people from rendering him any service.
"I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa to Festus. "You shall hear him to-morrow," said Festus.
a promise which our twelve tribes hope to gain by serving God earnestly both night and day. And I am actually impeached by Jews for this hope, O king!
that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'
When he brought this forward in his defence, Festus called out, "Paul, you are quite mad! Your great learning is driving you insane."
but as the officer wanted to save Paul, he put a stop to their plan, ordering those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,
They meant to release me after examination, as I was innocent of any crime that deserved death.
and installed as Son of God with power by the Spirit of holiness when he was raised from the dead ??concerning Jesus Christ our Lord,
God is my witness, the God whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I always mention you in my prayers,
Brothers, I would like you to understand that I have often purposed to come to you (though up till now I have been prevented) so as to have some results among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity ??slanderers,
whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;
whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;
knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin
(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.
but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.
I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest. Now, when I act against my wishes, that means I agree that the Law is right.
For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right. I cannot be good as I want to be, and I do wrong against my wishes. read more. Well, if I act against my wishes, it is not I who do the deed but sin that dwells within me. So this is my experience of the Law: I want to do what is right, but wrong is all I can manage;
We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.
We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.
for they are Israelites, theirs is the Sonship, the Glory, the covenants, the divine legislation, the Worship, and the promises;
It is not, of course, as if God's word had failed! Far from it! 'Israel' does not mean everyone who belongs to Israel;
and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),
You see, it is not a question of human will or effort but of the divine mercy.
"Then," you will retort, "why does he go on finding fault? Who can oppose his will?"
No, what it does say is this: ??The word is close to you, in your very mouth and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach).
(You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.)
Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.
And God has revealed it to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God.
So do not criticize at all; the hour of reckoning has still to come, when the Lord will come to bring dark secrets to the light and to reveal life's inner aims and motives. Then each of us will get his meed of praise from God.
Clean out the old dough that you may be a fresh lump. For you are free from the old leaven; Christ our paschal lamb has been sacrificed. So let us celebrate our festival, not with any old leaven, not with vice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of innocence and integrity.
I would like all men to be as I am. However, everyone is endowed by God in his own way; he has a gift for the one life or the other.
When an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you agree to go, eat whatever is put before you, instead of letting scruples of conscience induce you to ask any questions about it.
As it is, God has set the members in the body, each as it pleased him.
Otherwise, suppose you are blessing God in the Spirit, how is the outsider to say 'Amen' to your thanksgiving? The man does not understand what you are saying!
Hence if at a gathering of the whole church everybody speaks with 'tongues,' and if outsiders or un believers come in, will they not say you are insane? Whereas, if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or outsider comes in, he is exposed by all, brought to book by all;
God gives it a body as he pleases, gives each kind of seed a body of its own.
'If any one has no love for the Lord, God's curse be on him! Maran atha!
My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.
my spirit could not rest, because I did not find Titus my brother there; so I said goodbye and went off to Macedonia.
and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant ??a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.
Besides, their minds were dulled, for to this very day, when the Old Testament is read aloud, the same veil hangs. Veiled from them the fact that the glory fades in Christ!
As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].
For I got no relief from the strain of things, even when I reached Macedonia; it was trouble at every turn, wrangling all round me, fears in my own mind.
This does not mean that other people are to be relieved and you to suffer:
I am no speaker, perhaps, but knowledge I do possess; I never failed to make myself intelligible to you.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, Christ lives in me; the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
in whom we enjoy our redemption, the forgiveness of our trespasses, by the blood he shed.
He has granted us complete insight and understanding of the open secret of his will, showing us how it was the purpose of his design
among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.
you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,
be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.
Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
put on salvation as your helmet, and take the Spirit as your sword (that is, the word of God),
We are the true Circumcision, we who worship God in spirit, we who pride ourselves on Christ Jesus, we who rely upon no outward privilege.
In him we enjoy our redemption, that is, the forgiveness of sins.
For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,
"Hands off this!" "Taste not that!" "Touch not this!" ??22 referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets;
So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),
Tell no lies to one another; you have stripped off the old nature with its practices,
so as to strengthen your hearts and make them blameless in holiness before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. [Amen.]
and repay you who are troubled (as well as us) with rest and relief, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven together with the angels of his power
the adversary who vaunts himself above and against every so-called god or object of worship, actually seating himself in the temple of God with the proclamation that he himself is God.
to the God who desires all men to be saved and to attain the knowledge of the Truth.
Now I want the men to offer prayer at any meeting of the church; and let the hands they lift to heaven be holy ??they must be free from anger and dissension.
Refuse to put young widows on the list, for when their wanton desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry
So I prefer young widows to marry again, to bear children, to look after their households, and not to afford our opponents any chance of reviling us.
So I prefer young widows to marry again, to bear children, to look after their households, and not to afford our opponents any chance of reviling us.
Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction. For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.
who has saved us and called us to a life of consecration ??not for anything we have done but because he chose to do it himself, by the grace which he gave us ages ago in Christ Jesus
For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent,
Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness,
he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious;
let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.
who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works. Tell them all this, exhort and reprove, with full authority; let no one slight you.
All who are with me salute you. Salute those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.
I would have liked to keep him beside me, that as your deputy he might serve me during my imprisonment for the gospel;
He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;
For if the divine word spoken by angels held good, if transgression and disobedience met with due punishment in every case,
For the Logos of God is a living thing, active and more cutting than any sword with double edge, penetrating to the very division of soul and spirit, joints and marrow ??scrutinizing the very thoughts and conceptions of the heart.
Let us pass on then to what is mature, leaving elementary Christian doctrine behind, instead of laying the foundation over again with repentance from dead works, with faith in God,
who tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the world to come, and then fell away ??6 it is impossible to make them repent afresh, since they crucify the Son of God in their own persons and hold him up to obloquy.
God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath;
Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,
(men who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly ??as Moses was instructed, when he was about to execute the building of the tabernacle: see, God said, that you make everything on the pattern shown you upon the mountain).
The first covenant had indeed its regulations for worship, and a material sanctuary. A tent was set up, the outer tent, containing the lampstand, the table, and the loaves of the Presence; this is called the Holy place.
Such were the arrangements for worship. The priests constantly enter the first tent, in the discharge of their ritual duties,
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who in the spirit of the eternal offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve a living God?
In fact, one might almost say that by Law everything is cleansed with blood. No blood shed, no remission of sins!
Otherwise, they would surely have ceased to be offered; for the worshippers, once cleansed, would no longer be conscious of sins!
Otherwise, they would surely have ceased to be offered; for the worshippers, once cleansed, would no longer be conscious of sins!
This is the covenant I will make with them when that day comes, saith the Lord, I will set my laws upon their hearts, inscribing them upon their minds, he adds, And their sins and breaches of the law I will remember no more. read more. Now where these are remitted, an offering for sin exists no longer.
It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible.
It was by faith that he celebrated the passover and performed the sprinkling by blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch Israel's first-born.
For while their discipline was only for a time, and inflicted at their pleasure, he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his own holiness.
Aim at peace with all ??and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;
You have not come to what you can touch, to flames of fire, to mist and gloom and stormy blasts,
(for they could not bear the command, If even a beast touches the mountain, it must be stoned) ??21 indeed, so awful was the sight that Moses said, I am terrified and aghast.
Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably ??29 but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.
Our altar is one of which the worshippers have no right to eat.
all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth. It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.
It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.
(Wanton creatures! do you not know that the world's friendship means enmity to God? Whoever, then, chooses to be the world's friend, turns enemy to God.
But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.
They wilfully ignore the fact that heavens existed long ago, and an earth which the word of God formed of water and by water.
The Lord is not slow with what he promises, according to certain people's idea of slowness; no, he is longsuffering for your sake, he does not wish any to perish but all to betake them to repentance.
Beloved, I am not writing you any new command, but an old command which you have had from the very beginning: the old command is the word you have heard.
Beloved, I am not writing you any new command, but an old command which you have had from the very beginning: the old command is the word you have heard.
Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.
Lo, I will make those who belong to that synagogue of Satan, who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but liars!) ??lo, I will have them come and do homage before your feet and learn that I did love you.
The four living Creatures, each with six wings apiece, are full of eyes all over their bodies and under their wings, and day and night they never cease the chant, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God almighty, who was and is and is coming."
For this they are now before the throne of God, serving him day and night within his temple. and he who is seated on the throne shall overshadow them.
So the huge dragon was thrown down ??that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, the seducer of the whole world ??thrown down to the earth, and his angels thrown down along with him.
He exerts the full authority of the first Beast in his presence, causing the earth and its inhabitants to worship the first Beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
and to this statue of the Beast he was allowed to impart the breath of life, so that the statue of the Beast should actually speak. He has everyone put to death who will not worship the statue of the Beast,
the smoke of their torture rises for ever and ever, and they get no rest from it, day and night, these worshippers of the Beast and his statue, and all who are marked with his name."
Who shall not fear, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou alone art holy. Yea, all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are disclosed."
So the first went off and poured his bowl upon the land; and noisome, painful ulcers broke out on those who bore the mark of the Beast and worshipped his statue.
Then I heard the angel of the waters cry, "O holy One, who art and wast, just art thou in this thy sentence.
Then I fell before his feet to worship him; but he said to me, "No, not that! I am but a servant like yourself and your brothers, who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God" (for the testimony borne by Jesus is the breath of all prophecy).
he gripped the dragon, that old serpent (who is the devil and Satan), and bound him for a thousand years,
None who is accursed will be there; but the throne of God and the Lamb will be within it, his servants will serve and worship him,