Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible









Not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is to abound unto your account.











Not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is to abound unto your account.









Night and day, making very abundant entreaties, that we may see your face, and fit in the things which are lacking in your faith?




We are bound, to be giving thanks, unto God, continually, concerning you, brethren, even as it is, meet; because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all one to another aboundeth,

They go from strength to strength, Each one appeareth before God in Zion.

And, this, I pray - that, your love, may be, yet more and more, pre-eminent in personal knowledge and all perception, To the end ye may be putting to the test the things that differ, in order that ye may be incorrupt and may give no occasion of stumbling, unto the day of Christ, Filled with that fruit of righteousness which is through Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God.

Not that I have, already, received, or have, already, reached perfection, but I am pressing on - if I may even lay hold of that for which I have also been laid hold of by Christ Jesus: - Brethren! I, as to myself, reckon that I have, not yet, laid hold; one thing, however, - the things behind, forgetting, and, unto the things before, eagerly reaching out, With the goal in view, I press on for the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus. read more.
As many, therefore, as are full-grown, let, this, be our resolve; and, if, somewhat differently, ye are resolved, this, also, shall, God, unto you reveal.

So as to walk worthily of the Lord, unto all pleasing, in every good work, bearing fruit, and growing in the personal knowledge of God, With all power, being empowered, according to the grasp of his glory, unto all endurance and long-suffering with joy,

And, you, may the Lord cause to abound and excel in your love one toward another, and toward all, - even as, we, do toward you: To the end he may confirms your hearts, faultless in holiness, before our God and Father, in the Presence of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Wherefore, dismissing the elementary discourse concerning the Christ, unto maturity, let us be tending, not, again, a foundation, laying down - of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, Of immersions - in respect of teaching, and of the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead, and of judgment age-abiding; - And, this, will we do, if at least, God, permit.

Putting away, therefore, all vice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envyings and all detractions, As new-born babes, for the pure milk that is for the mind, eagerly crave, that, thereby, ye may grow unto salvation: - If ye have tasted for yourselves that, gracious, is the Lord, -








Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap ye at thc bidding of lovingkindness, furrow to yourselves the newly-ploughed soil, - then will be the time to seek Yahweh, until he come, that he may rain down righteousness for you.



And, as he was reasoning of righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix, becoming greatly afraid, answered - For the present, be going thy way, and, when I find an opportunity, I will send for thee, -

Wherefore, O king, let, my counsel, be pleasing unto thee, thy sin, then, - by righteousness, break thou off, and, thine iniquities, by shewing favour to the oppressed, - if so be it may become the lengthening out of thy security.


Wake up to sobriety, in righteousness, and be not committing sin; for some have, an ignorance of God: for shame, unto you, am I speaking!












To the end ye may be putting to the test the things that differ, in order that ye may be incorrupt and may give no occasion of stumbling, unto the day of Christ, Filled with that fruit of righteousness which is through Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God. Howbeit, I am minded, brethren, that ye should be, getting to know, that, the things which relate unto myself, rather, unto an advancement of the glad-message, have fallen out, read more.
So that, my bonds, have become manifest in Christ, in the whole palace, and unto all the rest, - And so that , the most of the brethren in the Lord, assured by my bonds, are becoming more abundantly bold to be fearlessly speaking the word of God: - Some, indeed, by reason of envy and strife - some, however, by reason of good will - are proclaiming, the Christ: These, indeed, out of love, knowing that, for the defence of the glad-message, I am set; But, those, out of faction, are declaring, the Christ, not purely - supposing to rouse up, tribulation, with my bonds. What then? That, in any way, whether in pretext, or in truth, Christ, is declared, and, in this, I rejoice - yea, and will rejoice! For I know that, this, shall turn unto me for salvation - through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, - According to my eager outlook and hope, that, in nothing, shall I be put to shame, but, with all freedom of speech, as always, now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether through means of life, or of death. For, unto me - living, is Christ, and, dying, gain. But, if living in flesh, is Christ , this, unto me, is a fruit of work, - and, what I shall choose, I make not known: