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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Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city's gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
After Moses the Lord's servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant:
After Moses the Lord's servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant:
David told the entire assembly: "Praise the Lord your God!" So the entire assembly praised the Lord God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the Lord and the king.
so that my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss from my mouth,
You pardoned the wrongdoing of your people; you forgave all their sin. (Selah)
O Lord, the heavens praise your amazing deeds, as well as your faithfulness in the angelic assembly.
a God who is honored in the great angelic assembly, and more awesome than all who surround him?
For our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel. Then you spoke through a vision to your faithful followers and said: "I have energized a warrior; I have raised up a young man from the people.
I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
"Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem: 'This is what the Lord says: "I have fond memories of you, how devoted you were to me in your early years. I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted.
Do I actually delight in the death of the wicked, declares the sovereign Lord? Do I not prefer that he turn from his wicked conduct and live?
Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately.
But he answered, "It is written, 'Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
And he said to him, "I will give you all these things if you throw yourself to the ground and worship me." Then Jesus said to him, "Go away, Satan! For it is written: 'You are to worship the Lord your God and serve only him.'"
"You have heard that it was said to an older generation, 'Do not murder,' and 'whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.'
"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'
"Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation, 'Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.'
After the demon was cast out, the man who had been mute spoke. The crowds were amazed and said, "Never has anything like this been seen in Israel!"
"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. read more. Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
"When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.
When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.
And I tell you that Elijah has already come. Yet they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In the same way, the Son of Man will suffer at their hands."
Then the slave threw himself to the ground before him, saying, 'Be patient with me, and I will repay you everything.'
Jesus said to him, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
So leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing once more.
After a little while, those standing there came up to Peter and said, "You really are one of them too -- even your accent gives you away!"
Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.
In the wilderness John the baptizer began preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
"Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are -- the Holy One of God!"
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, but is guilty of an eternal sin"
So Herodias nursed a grudge against him and wanted to kill him. But she could not
for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them: "Have courage! It is I. Do not be afraid."
Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this."
After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."
In his teaching Jesus also said, "Watch out for the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces,
But he denied it again. A short time later the bystanders again said to Peter, "You must be one of them, because you are also a Galilean."
These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;
They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]
like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.
that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, may serve him without fear,
to give his people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.
She had lived as a widow since then for eighty-four years. She never left the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
He went into all the region around the Jordan River, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,
Simon answered, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets."
So he stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I am willing. Be clean!" And immediately the leprosy left him.
She came up behind Jesus and touched the edge of his cloak, and at once the bleeding stopped. Then Jesus asked, "Who was it who touched me?" When they all denied it, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are surrounding you and pressing against you!" read more. But Jesus said, "Someone touched me, for I know that power has gone out from me." When the woman saw that she could not escape notice, she came trembling and fell down before him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.
"When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but not finding any. Then it says, 'I will return to the home I left.'
But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,
The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.
Look at my hands and my feet; it's me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have."
and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.
Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly. The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.
You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.
and because of his word many more believed. They said to the woman, "No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world."
For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.
"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.
So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.
Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me. read more. This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."
This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."
This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors ate, but then later died. The one who eats this bread will live forever."
The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
So Jesus said to the twelve, "You don't want to go away too, do you?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, "How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?"
Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples
I know that you are Abraham's descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.
Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
Why don't you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.
The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God's words. You don't listen and respond, because you don't belong to God."
I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death." Then the Judeans responded, "Now we know you're possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, 'If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.'
If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),
So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, look, the one you love is sick."
(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)
Thus the people who had come to mourn said, "Look how much he loved him!"
The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."
If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.
Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.
Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.
They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
"I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.
because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.
But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"
Jesus replied, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
He told them, "Throw your net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they threw the net, and were not able to pull it in because of the large number of fish. Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tucked in his outer garment (for he had nothing on underneath it), and plunged into the sea. read more. Meanwhile the other disciples came with the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards. When they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire ready with a fish placed on it, and bread. Jesus said, "Bring some of the fish you have just now caught." So Simon Peter went aboard and pulled the net to shore. It was full of large fish, one hundred fifty-three, but although there were so many, the net was not torn.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.
because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.
because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.
Peter said to them, "Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and discovered that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized these men had been with Jesus.
When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God courageously.
God exalted him to his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.
But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."
But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,' said God, 'and after these things they will come out of there and worship me in this place.'
But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel? But you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images you made to worship, but I will deport you beyond Babylon.'
But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
He was a devout, God-fearing man, as was all his household; he did many acts of charity for the people and prayed to God regularly.
When the angel who had spoken to him departed, Cornelius called two of his personal servants and a devout soldier from among those who served him,
About him all the prophets testify, that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."
When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,
But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.'
But regarding the fact that he has raised Jesus from the dead, never again to be in a state of decay, God has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the holy and trustworthy promises made to David.' Therefore he also says in another psalm, 'You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.'
Therefore he also says in another psalm, 'You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.'
Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that some time ago God chose me to preach to the Gentiles so they would hear the message of the gospel and believe.
For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath."
For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an unknown god.' Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.
For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an unknown god.' Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.
For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: 'To an unknown god.' Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.
nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
The Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, "Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,
Some of the disciples from Caesarea came along with us too, and brought us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple from the earliest times, with whom we were to stay.
A man named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,
The next day, because the commanding officer wanted to know the true reason Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole council to assemble. He then brought Paul down and had him stand before them.
Since I wanted to know what charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down to their council.
But I confess this to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law and that is written in the prophets.
He ordered the centurion to guard Paul, but to let him have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from meeting his needs.
Agrippa said to Festus, "I would also like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he replied, "you will hear him."
a promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain as they earnestly serve God night and day. Concerning this hope the Jews are accusing me, Your Majesty!
to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
As Paul was saying these things in his defense, Festus exclaimed loudly, "You have lost your mind, Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane!"
But the centurion, wanting to save Paul's life, prevented them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land,
When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.
who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
For God, whom I serve in my spirit by preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness that I continually remember you
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I often intended to come to you (and was prevented until now), so that I may have some fruit even among you, just as I already have among the rest of the Gentiles.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.
God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.
We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
For I don't understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want -- instead, I do what I hate. But if I do what I don't want, I agree that the law is good.
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want! read more. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me. So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,
who are Israelites. To them belong the adoption as sons, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,
even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) --
So then, it does not depend on human desire or exertion, but on God who shows mercy.
You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who has ever resisted his will?"
But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we preach),
Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.
Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice -- alive, holy, and pleasing to God -- which is your reasonable service.
God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.
Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough -- you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.
If an unbeliever invites you to dinner and you want to go, eat whatever is served without asking questions of conscience.
But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided.
Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit, how can someone without the gift say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
So if the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and unbelievers or uninformed people enter, will they not say that you have lost your minds? But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or uninformed person enters, he will be convicted by all, he will be called to account by all.
But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!
For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God -- not by human wisdom but by the grace of God -- we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
I had no relief in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said good-bye to them and set out for Macedonia.
who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away.
Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
For even when we came into Macedonia, our body had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way -- struggles from the outside, fears from within.
For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.
And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So the life I now live in the body, I live because of the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,
In Christ we too have been claimed as God's own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will
In Christ we too have been claimed as God's own possession, since we were predestined according to the one purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will
among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest
Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,
Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.
But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.
"Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"
So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices
bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others.
so that your hearts are strengthened in holiness to be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
and to you who are being afflicted to give rest together with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels.
He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God's temple, displaying himself as God.
since he wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
So I want the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.
But do not accept younger widows on the list, because their passions may lead them away from Christ and they will desire to marry,
So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.
So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.
Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,
But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.
Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.
and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, because he has nothing evil to say about us.
He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good. So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don't let anyone look down on you.
Everyone with me greets you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.
I wanted to keep him so that he could serve me in your place during my imprisonment for the sake of the gospel.
The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
For if the message spoken through angels proved to be so firm that every violation or disobedience received its just penalty,
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart.
Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,
tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age,
In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,
For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, "See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain."
Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary. For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.
So with these things prepared like this, the priests enter continually into the outer tent as they perform their duties.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
Indeed according to the law almost everything was purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?
For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?
"This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds," then he says, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer." read more. Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God's command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.
By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
For they disciplined us for a little while as seemed good to them, but he does so for our benefit, that we may share his holiness.
Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.
For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind
For they could not bear what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned."
So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.
We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.
All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change. By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world's friend makes himself God's enemy.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.
Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have already heard.
In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.
Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan -- who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying -- Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.
Each one of the four living creatures had six wings and was full of eyes all around and inside. They never rest day or night, saying: "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, Who was and who is, and who is still to come!"
For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one seated on the throne will shelter them.
So that huge dragon -- the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world -- was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.
He exercised all the ruling authority of the first beast on his behalf, and made the earth and those who inhabit it worship the first beast, the one whose lethal wound had been healed.
The second beast was empowered to give life to the image of the first beast so that it could speak, and could cause all those who did not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
And the smoke from their torture will go up forever and ever, and those who worship the beast and his image will have no rest day or night, along with anyone who receives the mark of his name."
Who will not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name, because you alone are holy? All nations will come and worship before you for your righteous acts have been revealed."
So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth. Then ugly and painful sores appeared on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
Now I heard the angel of the waters saying: "You are just -- the one who is and who was, the Holy One -- because you have passed these judgments,
So I threw myself down at his feet to worship him, but he said, "Do not do this! I am only a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony about Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony about Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."
He seized the dragon -- the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan -- and tied him up for a thousand years.
And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him,