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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.
All Scripture is divinely inspired, and useful in teaching, in reproof, in correcting faults, and in training in uprightness,
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.
But what the Spirit produces is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
For it is by his mercy that you have been saved through faith. It is not by your own action, it is the gift of God.
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.
Therefore go and make disciples of all the heathen, baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Spirit,
You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.
Jesus said to him, "I am Way and Truth and Life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."
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,
For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,
In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine.
he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,
For if with your lips you acknowledge the message that Jesus is Lord, and with your mind you believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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.
But God proves his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.
And he has given us some men as apostles, some as prophets, some as missionaries, some as pastors and teachers,
And they devoted themselves to the teaching and the society of the apostles, the breaking of bread, and prayer.
If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.
Jesus answered him, "I tell you, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born over again from above!"
A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come to let them have life, and to let them have it in abundance.
It is just like the way in which through one man sin came into the world, and death followed sin, and so death spread to all men, because all men sinned.
And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.
There is no salvation through anyone else, for there is no one else in the world who has been named to men as their only means of being saved."
So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.
And Jesus came up to them and said, "Full authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.
So as we have been made upright by faith, let us live in peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.
So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.
Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was present.
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.
For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who has faith, of the Jew first and then of the Greek.
I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must love one another.
Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.
But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.
And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you always.
Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,
Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.
For God's anger is breaking forth from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth.
"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,
Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.
So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.
Faith means the assurance of what we hope for; it is our conviction about things that we cannot see.
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.
So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. An upright man can do a great deal by prayer when he tries.
but when the Spirit of Truth comes, he will guide you into the full truth, for he will not speak for himself but will tell what he hears, and will announce to you the things that are to come.
Everyone must obey the authorities that are over him, for no authority can exist without the permission of God; the existing authorities have been established by him,
But I tell you, your name is Peter, a rock, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not subdue it.
"When the Son of Man comes in his splendor, with all his angels with him, he will take his seat on his glorious throne,
Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be.
The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.
but the Helper, the holy Spirit which the Father will send in my place, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I have told you.
The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.
He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.
"Do not suppose that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to do away with them but to enforce them.
Henceforth you must grow strong through union with the Lord and through his mighty strength.
And he said to him, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'
I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.
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.
Now, brothers, let your minds dwell on what is true, what is worthy, what is right, what is pure, what is amiable, what is kindly??n everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.
but without faith it is impossible to please him; for whoever would approach God must have faith in his existence and in his willingness to reward those who try to find him.
while we wait for the fulfilment of our blessed hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus.
So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ.
And he made a lash out of rope, and drove them all, sheep and cattle, out of the Temple, and scattered the money-changers' coins on the ground, and overturned their tables.
and they were all filled with the holy Spirit and began to say in foreign languages whatever the Spirit prompted them to utter.
He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe it will be condemned.
"Believe in the Lord Jesus," they said, "and you and your household will be saved!"
If any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who gives generously to everyone, and does not reproach one with it afterward, and he will give it to him.
Jesus said to her, "I myself am Resurrection and Life. He who believes in me will live on, even if he dies,
So they welcomed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people joined them that day.
As he said this, he was caught up before their eyes and a cloud took him up from their sight.
On the first day of the week, when we had met for the breaking of bread, Paul addressed them, as he was going away the next morning, and he prolonged his address until midnight.
but reverence Christ in your hearts as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that you have. But do so gently and respectfully,
And eternal life means knowing you as the only true God, and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice
Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature??is eternal power and divine character??ave been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse,
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;
It was little by little and in different ways that God spoke in old times to our forefathers through the prophets,
"There was once a rich man, who used to dress in purple and fine linen, and to live in luxury every day.
Here I stand knocking at the door. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and dine with him, and he with me.
It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven.
The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."
The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,
No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.
You must not be avaricious; you must be content with what you have, for God himself has said, "I will never let go of you or desert you!"
Then Jesus spoke to them again and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not have to walk in darkness but will have the light of life."
"Do not store up your riches on earth, where moths and rust destroy them, and where thieves break in and steal them,
For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.
Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
You are the light of the world! A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden.
Now these were the circumstances of the birth of Jesus Christ. Mary, his mother, was engaged to Joseph, but before they were married it was found that she was about to become a mother through the influence of the holy Spirit.
Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.
There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.
If any one is sick, he should call in the elders of the church and have them pray over him, and pour oil on him in the name of the Lord,
Then an expert in the Law got up to test him and said, "Master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"
We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.
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.
He made him who knew nothing of sin to be sin, for our sake, so that through union with him we might become God's uprightness.
I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."
You also have heard the message of the truth, the good news of your salvation, and believed in him, and through union with him you have been marked with the seal of the holy Spirit that was promised,
You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,
The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.
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.
The angel answered, "The holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason your child will be called holy, and the Son of God.
A religious observance that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and keep one's self unstained by the world.
Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.
You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,
"But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into the sky? This very Jesus who has been caught up from you into heaven will come in just the way that you have seen him go up to heaven."
So repent and turn to God, to have your sins wiped out, and happier times will come from the presence of the Lord,
For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.
My brothers, what is the good of a man's saying he has faith, if he has no good deeds to show? Can faith save him?
For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?
This, therefore, is the way you are to pray: 'Our Father in heaven, Your name be revered!
Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,
Then what shall we conclude? Are we to continue to sin to increase the spread of mercy?
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
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.
In those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.
For there is but one God, and one intermediary between God and men??he man Christ Jesus,
You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,
It is through union with him and through his blood that we have been delivered and our offenses forgiven,
Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,
But if we live in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.
So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;
"Pass no more judgments upon other people, so that you may not have judgment passed upon you.
For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold,
They are children of the world; that is why they speak as the world directs, and the world listens to them.
I mean this: Live by the Spirit, and then you will not indulge your physical cravings.
But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.
When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"
and saying, "Where is his promised coming? For ever since our forefathers fell asleep everything has remained as it was from the beginning of creation!"
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.
for it was through him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, angelic thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities??ll things were created through him and for him.
And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent up in the air, the Son of Man must be lifted up,
"Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it.
While God overlooked those times of ignorance, he now calls upon all men everywhere to repent,
Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother's womb over again and be born?"
If, then, you have been raised to life with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are where Christ is, above, seated at God's right hand.
For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;
As persons chosen by God, then, consecrated and dearly loved, you must clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, forbearance.
Let us not neglect meeting together as some do, but let us encourage one another, all the more as you can see that the great Day is coming nearer.
For Christ himself died once for all, for sin, an upright man for unrighteous men, to bring us to God, and was physically put to death, but he was made alive in the Spirit.
In those days, as the number of the disciples was increasing, complaints were made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.
I leave you a blessing; I give you my own blessing. I do not give it to you as the world gives. Your minds must not be troubled or afraid.
For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens.
He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Yet it is only the truth when I tell you that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you, but if I go I will send him to you.
For our high priest is not one who is incapable of sympathy with our weaknesses, but he has been tempted in every way just as we have, without committing any sin.
"You are the salt of the earth! But if salt loses its strength, how can it be made salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden underfoot.
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,
Be calm and watchful. Your opponent the devil is prowling about like a roaring lion, wanting to devour you.
In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit itself pleads for us with inexpressible yearnings,
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God, and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,
Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,
When the Helper comes whom I will send to you from the Father??hat Spirit of Truth that comes from the Father??e will bear testimony to me,
Think what love the Father has had for us, in letting us be called God's children, for that is what we are. This is why the world does not know what we are??ecause it has never come to know him.
On the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from it.
Then Peter began and said, "Now I really understand that God shows no partiality,
And he said to everyone, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross day after day and follow me.
Philip answered, "Forty dollars' worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to have even a little."
One Sabbath, when he went to take a meal at the house of a member of the council who was a Pharisee, they were watching him closely.
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath he went to the synagogue, as he was accustomed to do, and stood up to read the Scriptures.
I left you behind in Crete expressly to correct what defects there were, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you??6 men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience.
So Jesus answered them, "I tell you, the Son cannot do anything of his own accord, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
Now after the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in Judea, in the days of King Herod, astrologers from the east arrived at Jerusalem,
Let the message of Christ live in your hearts in all its wealth of wisdom. Teach it to one another and train one another in it with thankfulness, with psalms, hymns, and sacred songs, and sing to God with all your hearts.
You must understand this in the first place, that no prophecy in Scripture can be understood through one's own powers,
"It is not for them only that I make this request. It is also for those who through their message come to believe in me.
My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.
Now on the last day, the great day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
The things our physical nature does are clear enough??mmorality, impurity, licentiousness,
Jesus answered, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.
The brothers sent Paul and Silas away immediately, in the course of the following night, to Berea. On arriving there they went to the Jewish synagogue.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor their hierarchies nor the present nor the future
Your light must burn in that way among men so that they will see the good you do, and praise your Father in heaven.
In my first volume, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning
Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him, "See! You are well again. Give up sin, or something worse may happen to you."
For I am certain that he who has begun the good work in you will finish it for the Day of Jesus Christ.
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.
for no prophecy ever originated in the human will, but under the influence of the holy Spirit men spoke for God.
Through baptism we have been buried with him in death, so that just as he was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too may live a new life.
As they continued their journey, he came to a certain village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him to her house.
So, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient, with reverence and awe make every effort to insure your salvation, not simply as though I were with you, but all the more because I am away.
It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.
When he comes, he will bring conviction to the world about sin and uprightness and judgment;
and you pay attention to the man in the fine clothes and say to him, "Sit here; this is a good place!" and say to the poor man, "Stand up, or sit on the floor at my feet,"
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.
If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts.
"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you disguised as sheep but are ravenous wolves underneath.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has caused us to be born anew to a life of hope through Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead,
Once as he was praying in a certain place, when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Master, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."
Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love.
There are many rooms in my Father's house; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.
but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law,
By observing one another, let us arouse ourselves to rival one another's love and good deeds.
So by whatever appeal there is in our relation to Christ, by whatever incentive there is in love, by whatever participation there is in the Spirit, whatever affection and sympathy,
Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness?
Do not be deceived. God is not to be sneered at. A man will reap just what he sows.
fixing our eyes upon Jesus, our leader and example in faith, who in place of the happiness that belonged to him, submitted to a cross, caring nothing for its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than these others are?" Peter said to him, "Yes, Master, you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs!"
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.
Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes?
From one forefather he has created every nation of mankind, and made them live all over the face of the earth, fixing their appointed times and the limits of their lands,
She will have a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for it is he who is to save his people from their sins."
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own;
He has put everything under his feet and made him the indisputable head of the church,
Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"
It is what existed from the beginning, that we announce; what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, and touched with our hands; it is the very message of life??2 for life has been revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it and announce to you that eternal life that was with the Father and has been revealed to us??3 it is what we have seen and heard that we announce to you also, so that you may share our fellowship, for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ,
Now Saul, still breathing murderous threats against the Lord's disciples, went to the high priest,
For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us.
But the man who had been cured did not know who it was, for as there was a crowd there, Jesus had left the place.
That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,
To him who by the exertion of his power within us can do unutterably more than all we ask or imagine,
He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the realm of his dear Son,
and teach them to observe all the commands that I have given you. I will always be with you, to the very close of the age."
including you who have been called to belong to Jesus Christ??7 to all those in Rome whom God loves, who are called to be his people; God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.
"Men of Israel, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you know, was a man whom God commended to you by the wonders, portents, and signs that God did right among you through him.
Jesus returned from the Jordan full of the holy Spirit, and he was led about in the desert
Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father sent me forth so I now send you."
"Blessed are those who feel their spiritual need, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!
Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What does he mean when he tells us, 'In a little while you will not see me any longer, and a little while after, you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"
One of the Pharisees asked him to have dinner with him, and he went to the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table.
Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Then I saw a great white throne with a being seated on it from whose presence earth and sky fled so far that they could not be found.
saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."
But he answered, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.' "
Many writers have undertaken to compose accounts of the movement which has developed among us,
After this the Master appointed seventy-two others, and sent them on before him, two by two, to every town or place to which he intended to come.
When he saw the crowds of people he went up on the mountain. There he seated himself, and when his disciples had come up to him,
They had no children, for Elizabeth was barren; and they were both advanced in life.
No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.
It is no superhuman temptation that you have had. And God can be depended on, not to let you be tried beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to give you a way out of it, so that you can withstand it.
but on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking spices they had prepared.
Since then we have in Jesus, the Son of God, a great high priest who has gone up into heaven, let us keep firm hold of our religion.
and Judah of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar. And Perez was the father of Hezron, and Hezron of Aram,
It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.
And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan taken such possession of your heart that you should lie to the holy Spirit, by appropriating part of the price of your land?
Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by,
"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.
and how from childhood you have known the Scriptures which can give you the wisdom that through faith in Christ Jesus leads to salvation.
After John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the good news from God,
When they heard this, they were stung to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
My God will gloriously supply all your needs with his wealth, through your union with Christ Jesus.
Then I saw heaven thrown open and there appeared a white horse. His rider was called Faithful and True, and he judges and wages war in uprightness.
I tell you, whoever believes in me will do such things as I do, and things greater yet, because I am going to the Father.
Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
And signs like these will attend those who believe: with my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign tongues;
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!' "
But if a man is caught doing something wrong, brothers, you are spiritual, and you must set him right, in a spirit of gentleness. Think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.
But he gives all the greater blessing. As the Scripture says, "God opposes haughty persons, but he blesses humble-minded ones."
Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.
And this good news of the kingdom will be preached all over the world, to testify to all the heathen, and then the end will come.
" 'It will come about in the last days, God says, That I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind; Your sons and daughters will become prophets, Your young men will have visions, And your old men will have dreams.
and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.'
"The maiden will be pregnant and will have a son, And they will name him Immanuel."?? word which means "God with us."
And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.
Try to be at peace with everyone, and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.
For the Lord himself, at the summons, when the archangel calls and God's trumpet sounds, will come down from heaven, and first those who died in union with Christ will rise;
For everything that was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by being steadfast and through the encouragement the Scriptures give, we might hold our hope fast.
The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach
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 now God's way of uprightness has been disclosed without any reference to law, though the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it.
By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."
Give, and they will give to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, they will pour into your lap. For the measure you use with others they in turn will use with you."
I will show you a far better way. If I can speak the languages of men and even of angels, but have no love, I am only a noisy gong or a clashing cymbal.
while all the throng of people was outside, praying at the hour of the incense offering.
So you are no longer foreigners or strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of his family.
And once when he ate with them, he instructed them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," he said,
For to those who are on the way to destruction, the story of the cross is nonsense, but to us who are to be saved, it means all the power of God.
and I give them eternal life, and they shall never be lost, and no one shall tear them out of my hands.
I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.
about Jesus of Nazareth, and how God endowed him with the power of the holy Spirit, and he went about doing good and curing all who were in the power of the devil, because God was with him.
Then he will say to those at his left, 'Begone, you accursed people, to the everlasting fire destined for the devil and his angels!
You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to be angry,
He is himself an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the whole world.
There were at Antioch in the church there a number of prophets and teachers??arnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the governor, and Saul.
And he took a loaf of bread and thanked God, and broke it in pieces, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body.
He is the head of the church, it is his body; for he is the beginning, the firstborn from among the dead??hat he might come to stand first in everything.
For his divine power has given us every requisite for life and piety, through our coming to know him who through his glory and excellence called us to him.
No one should think when he is tempted that his temptation comes from God, for God is incapable of being tempted by what is evil, and he does not tempt anyone.
But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south, by the road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza." (The town is now deserted.)
to my dear child Timothy; God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord bless you and be merciful to you and give you peace.
Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he stands the test, he will be given the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
And so from one man, for any prospect of descendants as good as dead, there sprang a people in number like the stars in the heavens or the countless sands on the seashore.
For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with Christ.
For the Spirit God has given us is a spirit not of timidity but of power, love, and self-discipline.
To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration:
For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.
"For it is just like a man who was going on a journey, and called in his slaves, and put his property in their hands.
But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted??urderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."
Let them all be one. Just as you, Father, are in union with me and I am with you, let them be in union with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
and Aram of Aminadab, and Aminadab of Nahshon, and Nahshon of Salmon,
Once as the crowd was pressing about him to hear God's message, he happened to be standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,
There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
If any one of you is in trouble, he should pray. If any one is in good spirits, he should sing a hymn.
The ancestry of Jesus Christ, who was descended from David, who was descended from Abraham.
There was but one heart and soul in the multitude who had become believers, and not one of them claimed anything that belonged to him as his own, but they shared everything they had with one another.
Therefore, he is able to save forever all who come to God through him, because he lives and intercedes for them forever.
So those who were present asked him, "Master, is this the time when you are going to re-establish the kingdom for Israel?"
For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."
"Therefore the whole nation of Israel must understand that God has declared this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."
"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?
And the scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether he would cure people on the Sabbath, in order to find a charge to bring against him.
If you remain united to me and my words remain in your hearts, ask for whatever you please and you shall have it.
Whatever owes its birth to the physical is physical, and whatever owes its birth to the Spirit is spiritual.
Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord??8 an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.
By the favor that God has shown me, I would tell every one of you not to think too highly of himself, but to think reasonably, judging himself by the degree of faith God has allowed him.
Then he said to them, "This is what I told you when I was still with you??hat everything that is written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must come true."
But a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, had sold a piece of property,
Now after he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven evil spirits.
You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.
After the Sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."
Do not act for selfish ends or from vanity, but modestly treat one another as your superiors.
But the commonwealth to which we belong is in heaven, and from it we are eagerly awaiting the coming of a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices, in order to go and anoint him.
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
For it is through union with him that we live and move and exist, as some of your poets have said, " 'For we are also his offspring.'
"You are right when you say you have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you are now living with is not your husband. What you say is true."
When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished!" Then bowing his head he gave up his spirit.
It was in that way in ancient times that those pious women who set their hopes on God made themselves attractive. They were submissive to their husbands,
This is the message that we heard from him and announce to you: God is light; there is no darkness in him at all.
For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flowers wither, and all their beauty is gone. That is the way rich men will fade and die in the midst of their pursuits.
Whatever the endowment God has given you, use it in service to one another, like good dispensers of God's varied mercy.
That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,
First of all, then, I urge that entreaties, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for all men,
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.
Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")
For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it.
Therefore since these children referred to have the same mortal nature, Jesus also shared it, like them, in order that by his death he might dethrone the lord of death, the devil,
The king will answer, 'I tell you, in so far as you did it to one of the humblest of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.'
and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me.
whom God the Father has chosen and predestined by the consecration of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ, and to be sprinkled with his blood; God bless you and give you perfect peace.
I warn everyone who hears the message of prophecy in this book read, that if anyone adds anything to it, God will inflict upon him the plagues that are described in this book;
One of the scribes came up and heard them arguing. He saw that Jesus had answered them well, and he asked him, "Which is the first of all the commands?"
came among you, to thrive and bear its fruit among you, as it does all over the world, from the time when you first heard about the mercy of God,
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.
knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety,
"Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock.
We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
But I can tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, and decay will not share in what is imperishable.
but by his mercy they are made upright for nothing, by the deliverance secured through Christ Jesus.
For I myself received from the Lord the account that I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus the night he was betrayed took some bread
but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."
Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,
After that I saw a great crowd which no one could count from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
"I tell you, any man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place, is a thief and robber.
Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.
This is a trustworthy saying. Whoever aspires to the office of superintendent sets his heart on a fine work.
It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the interior, reached Ephesus. Finding some disciples there,
"When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the squares, to let people see them. I tell you, that is the only reward they will get!
"You have heard that they were told, 'You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.
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.
So whether you are eating or drinking or doing anything else, do it all to the honor of God.
for then you will be triumphantly admitted to the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Work at everything you do with all your hearts, as work done not for men only but for the Lord,
for you know that you have not been ransomed with anything perishable like silver or gold, from the futile way of living in which you were brought up,
He led them out of the jail and said to them, "Gentlemen, what must I do to be saved?"
Then I saw thrones with beings seated on them, who were empowered to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and the message of God, who refused to worship the animal and its statue, and would not have its mark put on their foreheads or on their hands. They were restored to life and reigned with the Christ a thousand years.
Use every kind of prayer and entreaty, and at every opportunity pray in the Spirit. Be on the alert about it; devote yourselves constantly to prayer for all God's people
Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.
But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and through believing you may have life as his followers.
You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that any who refuse to believe the message may be won over without argument through the behavior of their wives
And do you suppose, when you sit in judgment upon those who do such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape the judgment of God?
Then Peter came to him and said, "Master, how many times am I to forgive my brother when he wrongs me? Seven times over?"
and found him and brought him to Antioch. The result was that for a whole year they met with the church, and taught large numbers of people, and it was at Antioch that the disciples first came to be known as Christians.
it fell to his lot, according to the priests' practice, to go into the sanctuary of the Lord and burn the incense,
Yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down from heaven.
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,
And when Jesus was baptized, he went right up out of the water, and the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God come down like a dove and light upon him,
So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.
As they were eating Jesus took a loaf and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. It is my body!"
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.
When Jesus reached the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"
Someone in the crowd said to him, "Master, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance."
Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Now a man named Lazarus was sick; he lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
when in your baptism you were buried with him, and raised to life with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
As you read that, you will be able to understand the insight I have into the secret of the Christ
And in spreading the news of him, we warn everyone and teach everyone all our wisdom, in order to bring everyone to Christian perfection.
More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance,
For anyone who obeys the whole of the Law but makes one single slip is guilty of breaking it all.
It is he who has my commands and observes them that really loves me, and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and show myself to him."
If your hand makes you fall, cut it off. You might better enter upon life maimed, than go with both your hands to the pit, into the fire that cannot be put out.
My brothers, do you try to combine faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with acts of partiality?
but one who is rich ought to rejoice at being reduced in circumstances, for the rich will disappear like the wild flowers.
Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers that unless they were circumcised as Moses prescribed, they could not be saved.
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.
You must not offend God's holy Spirit, with which you have been marked for the Day of Redemption.
And now, why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash out your sins, calling on his name.'
Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has chosen to give you the kingdom.
As he was starting again on his journey, a man came running up to him, and knelt at his feet and asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"
So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.
He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.
But how are they to call upon him if they have not believed in him? And how are they to believe him if they have never heard him? And how are they to hear unless someone preaches to them?
That is the life to which you have been called, for Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow his footsteps.
And all of us, reflecting the splendor of the Lord in our unveiled faces, are being changed into likeness to him, from one degree of splendor to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Therefore I tell you, whenever you pray or ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted you, and you shall have it.
and to ask that somehow by God's will I may some day at last succeed in reaching you.
And he called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself, and take his cross and follow me.
There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is but one hope that belongs to the summons you received.
Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the devoted adherents of Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with the superintendents and assistants;
We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.
"Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands,
Yet you have a few at Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me clad in white, for they deserve to.
in the abundance of his mercy which he has lavished upon us.
I have written this so that you who believe in the Son of God may know that you have eternal life.
You must be kind to one another, you must be tender-hearted, and forgive one another just as God through Christ has forgiven you.
'The very dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off in protest. But understand this: the Kingdom of God is at hand!'
I appeal therefore to those who are elders among you; I am their brother-elder and a witness to what the Christ suffered, and I am to share in the glory that is to be revealed??2 be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though it were forced upon you but of your own free will, and not from base love of gain but freely,
And that testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is found in his Son.
and he will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no death any longer, nor any grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away."
This girl would follow Paul and the rest of us, crying out, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are making known to you a way of salvation."
Then I saw another angel flying in midair, with eternal good news to announce to the inhabitants of the earth, to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
Have no fear of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. You had better be afraid of one who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.
And the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,
He had shown himself alive to them after he had suffered, in many convincing ways, appearing to them through forty days, and telling them about the Kingdom of God.
So no one can call you to account for what you eat or drink, or do about annual or monthly feasts or Sabbaths.
In it God's way of uprightness is disclosed through faith and for faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright will have life because of his faith."
See! He is coming on the clouds, and every eye will see him, even the men who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will lament over him. So it is to be, Amen.
constantly praising God and respected by all the people. And every day the Lord added people who were saved to their number.
It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.
It was in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
For when one man says, "I am a follower of Paul," and another, "I am a follower of Apollos," are you not simply human?
and the devil who led them astray was flung into the fiery, sulphurous lake, where the animal and the false prophet were, there to be tortured day and night forever and ever.
Let us not get tired of doing right, for at the proper time we shall reap, if we do not give out.
I am baptizing you in water in token of your repentance, but he who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry his shoes. He will baptize you in the holy Spirit and in fire.
for you have been born anew from a germ not perishable, but imperishable, through the message of the living, everlasting God.
Jesus himself was about thirty years old when he began his work. He was the son, it was supposed, of Joseph, the son of Eli,
He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "
And we have confidence in him, that if we ask him for anything that is in accordance with his will, he will listen to us.
in other words, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith.
No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."
Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?
As your example in wholesome instruction, keep before you what you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus.
That is why God has so greatly exalted him, and given him the name above all others,
No bad word must ever pass your lips, but only words that are good and suited to improve the occasion, so that they will be a blessing to those who hear them.
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father.
And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. Wait here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."
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."
When Jesus had said all this he raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Do honor to your son, that your son may do honor to you,
What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?
Just then some people came up to bring him word of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with that of their sacrifices.
And whatever you have to say or do, do it all as followers of the Lord Jesus, and offer your thanksgiving to God the Father through him.
"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 they were told, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
This will bring gladness and delight to you, and many will rejoice over his birth.
Approach God, and he will approach you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Make your hearts pure, you doubters!
You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.
Children, it is the last hour. You have heard that Antichrist is coming, and many Antichrists have indeed appeared. So we may be sure that it is the last hour.
"So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"??he reader must take note of this??16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;
I showed you in every way that by hard work like that we must help those who are weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, for he said, 'It makes one happier to give than to be given to.' "
And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, and the God always ready to comfort!
For I tell you, as long as heaven and earth endure, not one dotting of an i or crossing of a t will be dropped from the Law until it is all observed.
and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name.
The Day of the Lord will come like a thief; on it the heavens will pass away with a roar, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth and all its works will melt away.
So remember that you were once physically heathen, and called uncircumcised by those who called themselves circumcised, though only physically, by human hands.
So we know and believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love keeps in union with God, and God with him.
and really came to know it, in the form in which Epaphras, my dear fellow-slave, taught it to you. He is my faithful representative as a servant of Christ,
After this Jesus again showed himself to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and he did so in this way.
In these there used to lie a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed.
I charge you in the sight of God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,
James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greeting to the twelve tribes that are scattered over the world.
The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the participation in the holy Spirit be with you all.
So we have the message of the prophets more fully guaranteed. Please pay attention to that message as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.
On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.
But even if we or an angel from heaven preach to you good news that contradicts the good news we have preached to you, a curse upon him!
For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,
And they did not forget what he said, but discussed with one another what he meant by the rising from the dead.
Since then, brothers, we have free access to the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,
It is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot obtain that Spirit, because it does not see it or recognize it; you recognize it because it stays with you and is within you.
In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod governor of Galilee, while his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was the governor of Abilene,
There were some shepherds in that neighborhood keeping watch through the night over their flock in the open fields.
"Blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for uprightness, for they will be satisfied!
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,
Be very careful, then, about the way you live. Do not act thoughtlessly, but like sensible men,
in order to fit his people for the work of service, for building the body of Christ,
For my part, I came among you in weakness and with a great deal of fear and trembling,
For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So let us come with courage to God's throne of grace to receive his forgiveness and find him responsive when we need his help.
Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.
Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set those who believe an example in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.
For we must all appear in our true characters before the tribunal of the Christ, each to be repaid with good or evil for the life he has lived in the body.
Then Peter stood up with the eleven around him, and raising his voice addressed them. "Men of Judea," he said, "and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and pay attention to what I say.
I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.
Owe nobody anything??xcept the duty of mutual love, for whoever loves his fellow-men has fully satisfied the Law.
standing by the message that can be relied on, just as he was taught it, so that he may be qualified both to encourage others with wholesome teaching and to show the error of those who oppose him.
"for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the holy Spirit."
But they did not insist that even my companion Titus, although he was a Greek, should be circumcised,
Obey your leaders and give way to them, for they are keeping watch in defense of your souls, as men accountable for the trust. Make their work a joy and not a grief, for that would be the worse for you.
Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit makes its home in you?
Then he fixed his eyes on his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours!
For we have all??ews or Greeks, slaves or free men??een baptized in one spirit to form one body, and we have all been saturated with one Spirit.
They were all devoting themselves with one mind to prayer, with the women and Mary, Jesus' mother, and his brothers.
Whoever commits sin is a child of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared??o undo the devil's work.
and speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and sacred songs. Sing praise to God with all your hearts;
but who know that a man is not made upright by doing what the Law commands, but by faith in Christ Jesus??ven we believed in Christ Jesus, so as to be made upright by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands??or by doing what the Law commands no one can be made upright.
But, as the Scripture says, there are things "Which no eye ever saw and no ear ever heard, And never occurred to the human mind, Which God has provided for those who love him."
But you, by the fixed purpose and intention of God, handed him over to wicked men, and had him crucified.
How inexhaustible God's resources, wisdom, and knowledge are! How unfathomable his decisions are, and how untraceable his ways!
A man came up to him and said, "Master, what good deed must I do to obtain eternal life?"
But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.
And if I go and make it ready, I will come back and take you with me, so that you may be where I am.
and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the sovereign of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has released us from our sins by his blood
But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!
Jesus said to him, " 'If there is anything I can do!' Everything is possible for one who has faith!"
preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.
For no human being can be made upright in the sight of God by observing the Law. All that the Law can do is to make man conscious of sin.
Once as we were on our way to the praying place a slave-girl met us who had the gift of ventriloquism, and made her masters a great deal of money by her fortune-telling.
I will tell you a secret. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,
Therefore everyone who will acknowledge me before men I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven,
I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death,
Before Peter had finished saying these words, the holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to his message.
Day after day they all went regularly to the Temple, they broke their bread together in their homes, and they ate their food with glad and simple hearts,
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May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.
"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: " 'The Amen, the true and faithful witness, the origin of God's creation, speaks thus:
To all who are unmarried and to widows, I would say this: It is an excellent thing if they can remain single as I am.
and hope will not disappoint us. For, through the holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.
for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark.
John too was baptizing at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and people came there and were baptized.
I have come to bring fire down to the earth, and how I wish it were kindled already!
And about three, Jesus called out loudly, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" that is, "My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?"
There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear. For fear suggests punishment and no one who feels fear has attained perfect love.
In the days when Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the division of Abijah. His wife was also a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
In fact, under the Law, almost everything is purified with blood, and unless blood is poured out nothing is forgiven.
so that if I am delayed, you may know how we are to conduct ourselves in the household of God, for it is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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.
As they went on along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Here is some water! What is there to prevent my being baptized?"
Therefore, prepare your minds for action, and with perfect calmness fix your hopes on the mercy that you are to experience when Jesus Christ is revealed.
A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.
"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.
First I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the news of your faith is spreading all over the world.
For it is God who in his good will is at work in your hearts, inspiring your will and your action.
You show endurance; you have undergone much for my sake, and you have not grown weary.
but they will have to answer for it to him who is ready to judge living and dead.
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 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.
So just as you once accepted the Christ, Jesus, as your Lord, you must live in vital union with him.
For all of you who have been baptized into union with Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
"Come," say the Spirit and the bride. Let everyone who hears this say, "Come!" Let everyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who wants it come and take without cost living water.
Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead, was living.
reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.
There will be signs too in sun, moon, and stars, and on earth dismay among the heathen, bewildered at the roar of the sea and the waves.
And he said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things away! Do not turn my Father's house into a market!"
For if you forgive others when they offend you, your heavenly Father will forgive you too.
I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a descendant of Israel. I belong to the tribe of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew, and the son of Hebrews. As to the Law, I was a Pharisee;
Even ships, great as they are, and driven by strong winds, are steered with a very small rudder wherever the pilot pleases.
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.'
Under the power of the Spirit Jesus returned to Galilee, and news of him went all over that region.
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'?
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."
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,
Anything you ask for as followers of mine I will grant, so that the Father may be honored through the Son.
Peter and John were on their way up to the Temple for the three o'clock hour of prayer,
"I am the Alpha and the Omega." says the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the Almighty.
After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias, and a great crowd followed him,
That same day when it was evening he said to them, "Let us cross to the other side."
He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.
You have heard me say that I am going away and am coming back to you; if you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.
The things you learned from me before many witnesses you must commit to trustworthy men who will be capable of teaching others.
You are children of God, dear children, and you have been victorious over these men, for he who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.
Then war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought
So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies.
For it makes me exceedingly happy to have some brothers come and testify to the truth of your life, for you are guided by truth.
Then they sang a new song: "You deserve to take the roll and open its seals, for you have been slaughtered, and with your blood have bought for God men from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation,
Then the king will say to those at his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take possession of the kingdom which has been destined for you from the creation of the world.
over your co-operation in the good news from the day you first received it until now.
"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, for you created all things; by your will they existed and were created."
I am the door. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will pass in and out and find pasture.
Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son; only the Father.
Remind men to accept and obey the constituted authorities, to be ready for any useful service,
There was at Caesarea a man named Cornelius, a captain in what was known as the Italian regiment.
And they began to discuss with one another which of them it was who was going to do this.
but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world.
Now when all the people were baptized and when Jesus also after his baptism was praying, heaven opened
And he said to them, "Take care! You must be on your guard against any form of greed, for a man's life does not belong to him, no matter how rich he is."
Then they will go away to everlasting punishment, and the upright to everlasting life."
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David,
but we do see Jesus, who was "made for a little while inferior to angels, crowned with glory and honor" because he suffered death, so that by the favor of God he might taste the bitterness of death on behalf of every human being.
We have gifts that differ with the favor that God has shown us, whether it is that of preaching, differing with the measure of our faith,
After this Jesus went into the country of Judea with his disciples, and stayed there with them and baptized.
But I urge you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you say, and not to allow factions among you, but to be perfectly united in mind and judgment.
As the time approached when he was to be taken up to heaven, he set his face toward Jerusalem,
So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves those who are his children.
May God, the source of hope, fill you with perfect happiness and peace in your faith, so that you may have overflowing hope through the power of the holy Spirit.
"See! I am coming very soon, bringing with me my rewards, to repay everyone for what he has done.
And people brought children to him to have him touch them, but the disciples reproved them for it.
It was about eight days after Jesus said this that he took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.
Treat people who are overscrupulous in their faith like brothers; do not criticize their views.
The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,
"But immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the forces of the sky will shake.
You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me.
For it is impossible to arouse people to a fresh repentance when they have once for all come into the light and had a taste of the gift from heaven, and shared in the holy Spirit
Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ.
They appointed elders for them in each church, and with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. The farmer has to wait for the precious crop from the ground, and be patient with it, until it gets the early and the late rains.
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.
And he immediately made his disciples get into the boat and cross before him to the other side while he dismissed the crowds.
For all that can be known of God is clearly before them; God has shown it to them.
And he said to his disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and it was reported to him that this man was squandering his property.
I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will obey my voice, and they will all become one flock, with one shepherd.
Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)??hrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
since he has fixed a day on which he will justly judge the world through a man whom he has appointed, and whom he has guaranteed to all men by raising him from the dead."
Now there were six stone water jars there, for the ceremonial purification practiced by the Jews, each large enough to hold twenty or thirty gallons.
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.
If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart."
and take salvation for your helmet, and for your sword the Spirit, which is the voice of God.
Is he not clearly speaking in our interests? Of course this law was written in our interests, because the plowman ought to plow, and the thresher to thresh, in the expectation of sharing in the crop.
For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,
Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was flung into the fiery lake.
He was once asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, and he answered, "The Kingdom of God is not coming visibly,
He said to them, "It is not for you to know times and dates which the Father has fixed by his own authority,
So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.
But when they believed Philip's message of the good news of the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, men and women alike accepted baptism.
That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."
And Saul entirely approved of his being put to death. A great persecution of the church in Jerusalem broke out that day, and they were all scattered over Judea and Samaria except the apostles.
For the Father passes judgment on no one, but he has committed the judgment entirely to the Son,
For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?
And he began with Moses and all the prophets and explained to them the passages all through the Scriptures that referred to himself.
Now I am to be no longer in this world, but they are to remain in the world, while I return to you. Holy Father, keep them by your power which you gave me, so that they may be one just as we are.
Yet I think it right, as long as I live in my present tent, to arouse you by a reminder,
but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.
for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him.
Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."
For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,
But do not overlook this one fact, dear friends, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like one day.
At that same time Jesus said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding all this from the learned and intelligent and revealing it to children.
The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"
There is no distinction between Jew and Greek for they all have the same Lord, and he is generous to all who call upon him.
You are built upon the apostles and prophets as your foundation, and Christ Jesus himself is the cornerstone.
Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.
For what good does it do a man to gain the whole world and yet part with his life?
for false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.
Yes, you who were dead through your misdeeds and physically uncircumcised, God raised to life with Christ. He forgave us all our misdeeds,
This is what I said in my letter, so that I might avoid coming and having my feelings hurt by the very people who might have been expected to make me happy, for I felt sure about you all, that what made me happy would make you all happy.
You know how gracious the Lord Jesus Christ was. Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, in order that by his poverty you might become rich.
Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, to God's people who are steadfast in Christ Jesus;
As they were engaged in worshiping the Lord and in fasting, the holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me, for the work to which I have called them."
Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead,
and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,
Not that I have anything to complain of, for I have learned how to be contented with the condition I am in.
A revelation made by Jesus Christ which God gave him to disclose to his slaves of what must very soon happen. He sent and communicated it by his angel to his slave John,
You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction,
For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it.
So they kept saying "What does he mean by 'In a little while'? We do not know what he is talking about."
and Asa of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat of Joram, and Joram of Uzziah,
Then Jesus and his disciples went away to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he questioned his disciples and said to them, "Who do people say that I am?"
So if we have already been made upright by his death, it is far more certain that through him we shall be saved from God's anger!
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 Paul stood up in the middle of the council and said, "Men of Athens, from every point of view I see that you are extremely religious.
Come to him, as to a living stone rejected by men, but chosen and prized in the sight of God,
Another figure which he used in speaking to them was this: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,
and if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she is an adulteress."
For just as there are many parts united in our human bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,
He said to them, "Because you have so little faith. For I tell you, if you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here over to there!' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman with desire has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
I write you in full reliance upon your obedience; I know that you will do even more than I ask.
At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.
for every child of God is victorious over the world. Our faith is the victory that has triumphed over the world.
So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the holy Spirit to those who ask him for it!"
in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.
And because you are sons, God has sent into our hearts the spirit of his Son, with the cry, "Abba!" that is, Father.
and build yourselves up as living stones into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, so as to offer spiritual sacrifices that through Jesus Christ will be acceptable to God.
For just as woman was made from man, man is born of woman, and both like everything else really come from God.
But he answered, "Did you never read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female,
But I tell you that anyone who gets angry with his brother will have to answer to the court, and anyone who speaks contemptuously to his brother will have to answer to the great council, and anyone who says to his brother 'You cursed fool!' will have to answer for it in the fiery pit!
and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.
He who supplies the sower with seed and so with bread to eat will supply you with seed, and multiply it and enlarge the harvest of your uprightness.
I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it remains just one grain. But if it dies, it yields a great harvest.
It happened that, on his way to Jerusalem, he passed through Samaria and Galilee.
Then he called the Twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases,
just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."
But Jesus said, "Let the children alone, and do not try to keep them from coming to me, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as they are."
Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, if you pose as a judge, for when you pass judgment on someone else, you are condemning yourself, for you, who sit in judgment, do the very same things yourself.
There were many other signs that Jesus showed before his disciples which are not recorded in this book.
This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.
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?
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,
Remember this: The man who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and the man who sows generously will reap generously.
I cannot do anything of my own accord. I pass judgment just as I am told to do, and my judgment is just, for I am not seeking to do what I please, but what pleases him who has sent me.
So you must lay aside falsehood and each tell his neighbor the truth, for we are parts of one another.
Is he not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?"
Do you think so lightly of his wealth of kindness, forbearance, and patience, and fail to see that God's kindness ought to induce you to repent?
You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, for that is your duty as Christians.
So I tell you, ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you.
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard in heaven, saying, "The sovereignty of the world has passed into the possession of our Lord and his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever."
I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.
Then Jesus gave a loud cry, and said, "Father, I intrust my spirit to your hands!" With these words he expired.
and said, "Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. But not my will but yours be done!"
You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.
For God is my witness how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus himself.
I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"
Every hollow must be filled up, And every mountain and hill leveled. What is crooked is to be made straight, And the rough roads are to be made smooth,
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.
with your lives filled with the fruits which uprightness produces through Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.
And they came to Jericho. As he was leaving the town with his disciples and a great crowd, Timaeus' son Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting at the roadside.
Everyone there, high and low, made much of him, and said, "He must be what is known as the Great Power of God!"
When he broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who have been slaughtered on account of God's message and for adhering to the testimony.
for today, in the town of David, a Savior for you has been born who is your Messiah and Lord.
And the other one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir. I have kept it put away in a handkerchief,
But the crowds learned of it and followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them about the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed to be cured.
Thus they crossed Phrygia and Galatia. The holy Spirit prevented them from delivering the message in Asia,
Soon afterward he went about among the villages and towns preaching and telling the good news of the Kingdom of God. The Twelve went with him,
But of the Son he says, "God is your throne forever and ever! And a righteous scepter is the scepter of his kingdom!
Do not take your revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord."
You senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, when you had Jesus Christ shown crucified right before your eyes?
But the leader of the synagogue, in his vexation because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, spoke out and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is right to work. Come on them and be cured, but not on the Sabbath day."
Everyone must give what he has made up his mind to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion; God loves a man who is glad to give.
and said to them, "The Scriptures said that Christ should suffer as he has done, and rise from the dead on the third day,
John to the seven churches in Asia, blessing and peace to you from him who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits before his throne,
And he will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make your preparations for us there."
When they entered the city they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. There were Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.
A member of the council asked him, "Good master, what must I do to make sure of eternal life?"
Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead.
You married men also must be considerate in living with your wives. You must show deference to women as the weaker sex, sharing the gift of life with you, so that there may be nothing to interfere with your prayers.
For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.
Women for their part are to dress modestly and sensibly in proper clothes, not adorning themselves by braiding their hair or with gold or pearls or expensive clothing,
Then I stood on the sand of the seashore, and I saw an animal come up out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, and with ten diadems on its horns, and blasphemous titles on its heads.
One of our hearers was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods, from the town of Thyatira. She was a believer in God, and the Lord touched her heart, and led her to accept Paul's teaching.
Here I have given you the power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and to trample on all the power of the enemy. Nothing will hurt you at all.
owing their birth not to nature nor to any human or physical impulse, but to God.
Do not judge others, and they will not judge you. Do not condemn them, and they will not condemn you. Excuse others and they will excuse you.
And he said to them, "Is it allowable to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them harm? To save life or kill?" But they made no answer.
for you know that everyone, slave or free, will be rewarded by the Lord for his good conduct.
Soon afterward he happened to go to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great throng of people were with him.
Now we know that everything the Law says is addressed to those under its authority, so that every mouth may be shut, and the whole world be made accountable to God.
And at three o'clock Jesus called out loudly, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
It was in those days that he went up on the mountain to pray, and passed the whole night in prayer to God.
God's love for us has been revealed in this way??hat God has sent his only Son into the world, to let us have life through him.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but plunged them into Tartarus, and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,
So they did so, and inclosed such a shoal of fish that their nets began to break.
Again, I tell you, if even two of you here on earth agree about what they shall pray for, it will be given them by my Father in heaven.
But he knew what they were thinking, and he said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and stand in front." And he got up and stood there.
Six days after this Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him, and led them up on a high mountain, off by themselves. And his appearance underwent a change in their presence,
This is why we must give the very closest attention to the message we have heard, to keep from ever losing our hold upon it.
For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,
for there will be greater misery then than there has ever been from the beginning of creation until now, or ever will be again.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who are scattered as foreigners over Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
and Hezekiah of Manasseh, and Manasseh of Amon, and Amon of Josiah,
What does this mean? Are we Jews at a disadvantage? Not at all. We have already charged Jews and Greeks all alike with being under the control of sin.
What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.
to whom God has chosen to make known among the heathen how glorious this mystery of Christ in you, the promise of glorification, really is.
Many of the Jews read this placard, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
Then he said to the man, "Hold out your hand!" And he held it out, and it was restored and became as well as the other.
When the heathen heard this they were delighted, and praised God's message, and all who were destined for eternal life believed,
Zechariah said to the angel, "How am I to know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in life."
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.
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.
All this comes from God, who through Christ has reconciled me to himself, and has commissioned me to proclaim this reconciliation??19 how God through Christ reconciled the world to himself, refusing to count men's offenses against them, and intrusted me with the message of reconciliation.
It is of him that all the prophets bear witness that everyone that believes in him will have his sins forgiven in his name."
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.
Six days after this, Jesus took Peter and James and his brother John, and led them up on a high mountain, by themselves.
Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead.
It was at that time that Peter got up among the brothers??here were about a hundred and twenty persons present??nd said,
As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him by themselves, and said to him, "Tell us when this is to happen, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the close of the age."
Be affectionate in your love for the brotherhood, eager to show one another honor,
"Here I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So you must be wise like serpents, and guileless like doves.
For I am myself under the orders of others and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."
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.
For when I was hungry, you gave me food, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was a stranger, you invited me to your homes,
It is a trustworthy saying, entitled to the fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of them,
"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.
Now, Father, do such honor to me in your presence as I had done me there before the world existed.
"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what is that among so many people?"
The angel said to them, "Do not be frightened, for I bring you good news of a great joy that is to be felt by all the people,
I know that after I am gone savage wolves will get in among you and will not spare the flock,
Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.
You are to become a mother and you will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus.
Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.
Dear friends, I beg you, as aliens and exiles here, not to indulge the physical cravings that are at war with the soul.
But when you pray, go into your own room, and shut the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
As they were eating, he took a loaf and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to them saying, "Take this. It is my body."
Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ
Then he explained to them for the first time that the Son of Man must go through much suffering, and be refused by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed, and rise again three days after.
After this Jesus went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.
So the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took his seat at God's right hand.
It is God's way of uprightness and comes through having faith in Jesus Christ, and it is for all who have faith, without distinction.
So they took him and brought him to the council of the Areopagus and said, "May we know just what this new teaching of yours is?
They will fall by the edge of the sword, and be carried off as prisoners among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the heathen, until the time of the heathen comes.
But Jesus looked at them and said, "For men it is impossible, but anything is possible for God!"
Near Jesus' cross stood his mother and her sister Mary, the daughter of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day.
Now the Lord here means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
While Paul waited for them at Athens, he was exasperated to see how idolatrous the city was.
Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will lament when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, in all his power and splendor.
You who are slaves, obey your earthly masters, in reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would the Christ,
He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Father, your name be revered! Your kingdom come!
But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,
Some of it fell on rocky ground, and where there was not much soil, and it sprang up at once because the soil was not deep,
For whoever lacks these qualities is blind or near-sighted, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his former sins.
Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to arouse faith in those whom God has chosen, and the comprehension of religious truth,
Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you,
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, for his own conduct condemned him.
For just as the Father awakens the dead and makes them come to life, the Son makes anyone whom he chooses come to life.
Let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we profess, for he who has given us his promise may be trusted.
who can condemn them? Christ Jesus who died, or rather who was raised from the dead, is at God's right hand, and actually pleads for us.
When they heard this, they made no further objection, but they gave honor to God, and said, "Then God has given even the heathen repentance and the hope of life!"