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"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
For by such grace you have been saved through faith. This does not come from you; it is the gift of God
And we know that for those who love God, that is, for those who are called according to his purpose, all things are working together for good.
Therefore, as you go, disciple people in all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.
Jesus told him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
But you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
Peter answered them, "Every one of you must repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the Holy Spirit as a gift.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with the Messiah Jesus our Lord.
However, to all who received him, those believing in his name, he gave authority to become God's children,
"Twas not for deeds that we had done, but by his steadfast love alone, he saved us through a second birth, renewed us by the Spirit's work,
If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, to be like us. Let them be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, the livestock, everything that crawls on the earth, and over the earth itself!"
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not depend on your own understanding.
But God demonstrates his love for us by the fact that the Messiah died for us while we were still sinners.
For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, "plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a future and a hope.
And it is he who gifted some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, and still others to be pastors and teachers,
So God created mankind in his own image; in his own image God created them; he created them male and female.
The believers continued to devote themselves to what the apostles were teaching, to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to times of prayer.
"Come to me, all of you who are weary and loaded down with burdens, and I will give you rest.
If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
Jesus replied to him, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God."
The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I've come that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.
Then he told them, "As you go into the entire world, proclaim the gospel to everyone.
There is no salvation by anyone else, for there is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved."
Therefore, if anyone is in the Messiah, he is a new creation. Old things have disappeared, and look! all things have become new!
This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.
Then Jesus approached them and told them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Never worry about anything. Instead, in every situation let your petitions be made known to God through prayers and requests, with thanksgiving.
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.
On the third day of that week there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,
When the day of Pentecost was being celebrated, all of them were together in one place.
I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who believes, of the Jew first and of the Greek as well.
I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
Now there was a man from the Pharisees, a leader of the Jews, whose name was Nicodemus.
Do your best to present yourself to God as an approved worker who has nothing to be ashamed of, handling the word of truth with precision.
But first be concerned about God's kingdom and his righteousness, and all of these things will be provided for you as well.
Therefore, having so vast a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, and throwing off everything that hinders us and especially the sin that so easily entangles us, let us keep running with endurance the race set before us,
"Therefore the LORD himself will give you a sign. Watch! The virgin is conceiving a child, and will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.
Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.
For God's wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of those who in their wickedness suppress the truth.
When the earth was as yet unformed and desolate, with the surface of the ocean depths shrouded in darkness, and while the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters,
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has anointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to set oppressed people free,
Jesus answered, "Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John
Now faith is the assurance that what we hope for will come about and the certainty that what we cannot see exists.
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow, as it judges the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sins to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
The next day, John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.
Every person must be subject to the governing authorities, for no authority exists except by God's permission. The existing authorities have been established by God,
I tell you that you are Peter, and it is on this rock that I will build my congregation, and the powers of hell will not conquer it.
"When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels are with him, he will sit on his glorious throne.
"I'll place hostility between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. He'll strike you on the head, and you'll strike him on the heel."
Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.
These people were more receptive than those in Thessalonica. They were very willing to receive the message, and every day they carefully examined the Scriptures to see if those things were so.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.
You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.
"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I didn't come to destroy them, but to fulfill them,
Jesus told him, ""You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, whoever hears what I say and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged, but has passed from death to life.
"Then it will come about at a later time that I will pour out my Spirit on every person. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your elderly people will dream dreams, and your young people will see visions.
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is fair, whatever is pure, whatever is acceptable, whatever is commendable, if there is anything of excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy keep thinking about these things.
Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently search for him.
as we wait for the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah.
Consequently, faith results from listening, and listening results through the word of the Messiah.
He has made it clear to you, mortal man, what is good and what the LORD is requiring from you to act with justice, to treasure the LORD's gracious love, and to walk humbly in the company of your God.
After making a whip out of cords, he drove all of them out of the Temple, including the sheep and the cattle. He scattered the coins of the moneychangers and knocked over their tables.
Now the Shining One was more clever than any animal of the field that the LORD God had made. He asked the woman, "Did God actually say, "You are not to eat from any tree of the garden'?"
Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign languages as the Spirit gave them that ability.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever doesn't believe will be condemned.
Then God said, "Let vegetation sprout all over the earth, including seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each kind containing its own seed!" And that is what happened:
They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will be saved."
Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to everyone generously without a rebuke, and it will be given to him.
Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The person who believes in me, even though he dies, will live.
So those who welcomed his message were baptized. That day about 3,000 people were added to their number.
After saying this, Jesus was taken up while those who had gathered together were watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
"I am the LORD. You are not to have sexual relations with a male as you would with a woman. It's detestable."
On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight.
Instead, exalt the Messiah" as Lord in your lives. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you to explain the hope you have.
And this is eternal life: to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent Jesus the Messiah.
You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don't you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink,"
Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, before there was an Abraham, I AM!"
For since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes his eternal power and divine nature have been understood and observed by what he made, so that people are without excuse.
So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
God, having spoken in former times in fragmentary and varied fashion to our forefathers by the prophets,
"The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed and to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners;
"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in great luxury every day.
Look! I am standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he will eat with me.
The LORD told Abram, "You are to leave your land, your relatives, and your father's house and go to the land that I'm going to show you.
"Not everyone who keeps saying to me, "Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom from heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven.
The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
but those who keep waiting for the LORD will renew their strength. Then they'll soar on wings like eagles; they'll run and not grow weary; they'll walk and not grow tired."
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."
So Jesus told those Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are really my disciples.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God's unique Son.
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you or abandon you."
Later on, Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
"Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm.
"Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you.
Now in the sixth month of her pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth,
He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! He has blessed us in the Messiah with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm,
When they heard this, they went away one by one, beginning with the oldest, and he was left alone with the woman standing there.
Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah happened in this way. When his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, before they lived together she was discovered to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
God replied to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and then said, "Tell the Israelis: "I AM sent me to you.'"
Dear friends, stop believing every spirit. Instead, test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female.
Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they should pray for him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Just then an expert in the Law stood up to test Jesus. He asked, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.
Every generous act of giving and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father who made the heavenly lights, in whom there is no inconsistency or shifting shadow.
God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God's righteousness would be produced in us.
I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"
God blessed the humans by saying to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it! Be masters over the fish in the ocean, the birds that fly, and every living thing that crawls on the earth!"
You, too, have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed in the Messiah, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,
The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some people understand slowness, but is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to perish, but wants everyone to repent.
The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will surround you. Therefore, the child will be holy and will be called the Son of God.
A religion that is pure and stainless according to God the Father is this: to take care of orphans and widows who are suffering, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
"If your brother sins against you, go and confront him while the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
They asked, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you saw him go up into heaven."
For we are God's masterpiece, created in the Messiah Jesus to perform good actions that God prepared long ago to be our way of life.
What good does it do, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not prove it with actions? This kind of faith cannot save him, can it?
Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.
Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were baptized into his death?
Therefore, this is how you should pray: "Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
Likewise, older women are to show their reverence for God by their behavior. They are not to be gossips or addicted to alcohol, but to be examples of goodness.
(Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife, and they will become one flesh.)
Later, the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the woman to be an authority corresponding to him."
Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living, but keep on being filled with the Spirit.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared, and the sea was gone.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, and he was crushed for our iniquities, and the punishment that made us whole was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.
Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.
Now in those days an order was published by Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered.
There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and human beings a human, the Messiah Jesus.
After this, Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil.
You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.
In union with him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our offenses, according to the riches of God's grace
Don't be amazed at this, because the time is approaching when everyone in their graves will hear the Son of Man's voice
But if we keep living in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to live in a way that is worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
"As for you, Bethlehem of Ephrathah, even though you remain least among the clans of Judah, nevertheless, the one who rules in Israel for me will emerge from you. His existence has been from antiquity, even from eternity.
For I passed on to you the most important points that I received: The Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
These people belong to the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh.
You, however, are not under the control of the human nature but under the control of the Spirit, since God's Spirit lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, he does not belong to him.
It was the evening of the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came and stood among them. He told them, "Peace be with you."
by saying, "What happened to the Messiah's promise to return? Ever since our ancestors died, everything continues as it did from the beginning of creation."
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.
Later on, there was another festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
For by him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether they are kings, lords, rulers, or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
"Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the road is spacious that leads to destruction, and many people are entering by it.
Though God has overlooked those times of ignorance, he now commands everyone everywhere to repent,
Nicodemus asked him, "How can a person be born when he is old? He can't go back into his mother's womb a second time and be born, can he?"
Therefore, if you have been raised with the Messiah, keep focusing on the things that are above, where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God.
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that the Son might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Keep on being obedient to the word, and not merely being hearers who deceive themselves.
Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another even more as you see the day of the Lord coming nearer.
For the Messiah also suffered for sins once for all, an innocent person for the guilty, so that he could bring you to God. He was put to death in a mortal body but was brought to life by the Spirit,
In those days, as the number of the disciples was growing larger and larger, a complaint was made by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.
I'm leaving you at peace. I'm giving you my own peace. I'm not giving it to you as the world gives. So don't let your hearts be troubled, and don't be afraid.
Because everyone who keeps asking will receive, and the person who keeps searching will find, and the person who keeps knocking will have the door opened.
"He himself bore our sins" in his body on the tree, so that we might die to those sins and live righteously. "By his wounds you have been healed."
Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you.
However, I'm telling you the truth. It's for your advantage that I'm going away, because if I don't go away, the Helper won't come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. Instead, we have one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet he never sinned.
"You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.
He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact likeness of his being, and he holds everything together by his powerful word. After he had provided a cleansing from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Highest Majesty
Be clear-minded and alert. Your opponent, the Devil, is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
In the same way, the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, since we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words,
Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
Everything the Father gives me will come to me, and I'll never turn away the one who comes to me.
Stop loving the world and the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, the Father's love is not in him.
"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father the Spirit of Truth, who comes from the Father he will testify on my behalf.
See what kind of love the Father has given us: We are called God's children and that is what we are! For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not recognize him, either.
On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
Then he told all of them, "If anyone wants to come with me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross every day, and follow me continuously,
Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread isn't enough for each of them to have a little."
One Sabbath, Jesus went to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal. The guests were watching Jesus closely.
Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been raised. As was his custom, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. When he stood up to read,
The reason I left you in Crete was to complete what still needed to be done and to appoint elders in every city, as I myself commanded you.
Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.
After Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod, wise men arrived in Jerusalem from the east
Let the word of the Messiah inhabit you richly with wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, and singing to God with thankfulness in your hearts.
First of all, you must understand this: No prophecy in Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,
I ask not only on behalf of these men, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their message,
All those who descended from Jacob totaled 75 persons. Now Joseph was already in Egypt.
If you think it's the wrong thing for you to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve the gods whom your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose territories you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."
My little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you might not sin. Yet if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father Jesus, the Messiah, one who is righteous.
On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity,
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."
The Messiah has set us free so that we may enjoy the benefits of freedom. So keep on standing firm in it, and stop putting yourselves under the yoke of slavery again.
"How you have fallen from heaven, Day Star, son of the Dawn! How you have been thrown down to earth, you who laid low the nation!
That night the brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
For there are three witnesses in heaven the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one.
In the same way, let your light shine before people in such a way that they will see your good actions and glorify your Father in heaven."
In my first book, Theophilus, I wrote about everything Jesus did and taught from the beginning,
Later on, Jesus found him in the Temple and told him, "Look! You have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."
May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!
What, then, can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
I am convinced of this, that the one who began a good action among you will bring it to completion by the Day of the Messiah Jesus.
Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
because no prophecy ever originated through a human decision. Instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, we too may live an entirely new life.
Now as they were traveling along, Jesus went into a village. A woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.
And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
If you give special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, "Please take this seat," but you say to the poor man, "Stand over there" or "Sit on the floor at my feet,"
Jesus answered him, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word. Then my Father will love him, and we will go to him and make our home within him.
If we say that we do not have any sin, we are deceiving ourselves and we're not being truthful to ourselves.
"Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are savage wolves.
Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! Because of his great mercy he has granted us a new birth, resulting in an immortal hope through the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah, from the dead
Once Jesus was praying in a certain place. After he had finished, one of his disciples told him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."
just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love
Jesus told his disciples a parable about their need to pray all the time and never give up.
There are many rooms in my Father's house. If there weren't, I wouldn't have told you that I am going away to prepare a place for you, would I?
But when the appropriate time had come, God sent his Son, born by a woman, born under the Law,
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will rebuild it."
And let us continue to consider how to motivate one another to love and good deeds,
Therefore, if there is any encouragement in the Messiah, if there is any comfort of love, if there is any fellowship in the Spirit, if there is any compassion and sympathy,
Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?
Solomon addressed the entire nation of Israel, including the commanders of thousands and hundreds, the judges, all the other leaders of Israel, and all of the heads of the ancestral houses of Israel.
Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants:
fixing our attention on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of the faith, who, in view of the joy set before him, endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
"How blessed are those who are merciful, because it is they who will receive mercy!
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."
Jesus told them, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never become hungry, and whoever believes in me will never become thirsty.
"That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life what you will eat or what you will drink or about your body what you will wear. Life is more than food, isn't it, and the body more than clothing?
"Surely he has borne our sufferings and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him stricken, and struck down by God, and afflicted.
From one man he made every nation of humanity to live all over the earth, fixing the seasons of the year and the national boundaries within which they live,
She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he is the one who will save his people from their sins."
You know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God, don't you? You do not belong to yourselves,
God has put everything under the Messiah's feet and has made him the head of everything for the good of the church,
Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "What sign can you show us as authority for doing these things?"
What existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we observed and touched with our own hands this is the Word of life!
Meanwhile, still spewing death threats against the Lord's disciples, Saul went to the high priest.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us.
But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.
For this reason, God delivered them to degrading passions as their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural.
Now to the one who can do infinitely more than all we can ask or imagine according to the power that is working among us
God has rescued us from the power of darkness and has brought us into the kingdom of the Son whom he loves,
teaching them to obey everything that I've commanded you. And remember, I am with you each and every day until the end of the age."
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne, high and exalted. The train of his robe filled the Temple.
"Fellow Israelis, listen to these words: Jesus from Nazareth was a man authenticated to you by God through miracles, wonders, and signs that God performed through him among you, as you yourselves know.
Then Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
who fathered Kenan, who fathered Mahalalel, who fathered Jared,
Jesus told them again, "Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, so I am sending you."
"How blessed are those who are destitute in spirit, because the kingdom from heaven belongs to them!
At this point, some of his disciples asked each other, "What does he mean by telling us, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again,' and, "because I am going to the Father'?"
Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. So he went to the Pharisee's home and took his place at the table.
Dear friends, we are now God's children, but what we will be like has not been revealed yet. We know that when the Messiah is revealed, we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.
Then I saw a large, white throne and the one who was sitting on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and no place was found for them.
He said, "The time is now! The kingdom of God is near! Repent, and keep believing the gospel!"
But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, "Pick up your mat and walk.'"
Since many people have attempted to write an orderly account of the events that have transpired among us,
After this, the Lord appointed 70 other disciples and was about to send them ahead of him in pairs to every town and place that he intended to go.
When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on the hill. After taking his seat, his disciples came to him,
"If a man has sexual relations with another male as he would with a woman, both have committed a repulsive act. They are certainly to be put to death.
They had no children because Elizabeth was barren and because both of them were getting old.
when my people humble themselves the ones who are called by my name and pray, seek me, and turn away from their evil practices, I myself will listen from heaven, I will pardon their sins, and I will restore their land.
"No one can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches!"
No temptation has overtaken you that is unusual for human beings. But God is faithful, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength. Instead, along with the temptation he will also provide a way out, so that you may be able to endure it.
Jesus kept saying, "Father, forgive them, because they don't know what they're doing." Then they divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.
But at early dawn on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone to heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us live our lives consistent with our confession of faith.
Judah fathered Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez fathered Hezron, Hezron fathered Aram,
"You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. I have appointed you to go and produce fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
Peter asked, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart so that you should lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back some of the money you got for the land?
Now I'm making known to you, brothers, the gospel that I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you have taken your stand,
The heavens are declaring the glory of God, and their expanse shows the work of his hands.
"Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of people in order to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures that are able to give you the wisdom you need for salvation through faith in the Messiah Jesus.
Now after John had been arrested, Jesus went to Galilee and proclaimed the gospel about the kingdom of God.
When the crowd that had gathered heard this, they were pierced to the heart. They asked Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what should we do?"
And my God will fully supply your every need according to his glorious riches in the Messiah Jesus.
Then I saw heaven standing open, and there was a white horse! Its rider is named Faithful and True. He administers justice and wages war righteously.
Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the one who believes in me will also do what I'm doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I'm going to the Father.
Therefore, whatever you want people to do for you, do the same for them, because this summarizes the Law and the Prophets."
"Look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
You have condemned and murdered the one who is righteous, even though he did not rebel against you.
because where two or three have come together in my name, I am there among them."
These are the signs that will accompany those who believe: In my name they'll drive out demons, they'll speak in new languages,
But he answered, "It is written, "One must not live on bread alone, but on every word coming out of the mouth of God.'"
In God's own form existed he, and shared with God equality, deemed nothing needed grasping.
Brothers, if a person is caught doing something wrong, those of you who are spiritual should restore that person gently. Watch out for yourself so that you are not tempted as well.
But he gives all the more grace. And so he says, "God opposes the arrogant but gives grace to the humble."
"But I say to you who are listening: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.
See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah,
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."
"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.
and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'
"See, a virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel,"
And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil.
Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
With a shout of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of God's trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first.
For everything that was written long ago was written to instruct us, so that we might have hope through the endurance and encouragement that the Scriptures give us.
Now the Spirit says clearly that in the last times some people will abandon the faith by following deceitful spirits, the teachings of demons,
He will make a binding covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he will suspend both the sacrifice and grain offerings. Destructive people will cause desolation on the pinnacle until it is complete and what has been decreed is poured out on the desolator.'"
You adulterers! Don't you know that friendship with the world means hostility with God? So whoever wants to be a friend of this world is an enemy of God.
But now, apart from the Law, God's righteousness is revealed and is attested by the Law and the Prophets
This is how everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Give, and it will be given to you. A large quantity, pressed together, shaken down, and running over will be put into your lap, because you'll be evaluated by the same standard with which you evaluate others."
If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.
And the entire congregation of people was praying outside at the time when the incense was burned.
That is why you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household,
While he was meeting with them, he ordered them, "Don't leave Jerusalem. Instead, wait for what the Father has promised, about which you heard me speak,
Keep on rejoicing in the Lord at all times. I will say it again: Keep on rejoicing!
For the message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God's power to us who are being saved.
I give them eternal life, they'll never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of the Messiah and, instead, are following a different gospel,
But Jesus asked him, "Mister, who appointed me to be a judge or arbitrator over you people?"
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and because God was with him, he went around doing good and healing everyone who was oppressed by the devil.
"Then he will say to those on his left, "Get away from me, you who are accursed, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the Devil and his angels!
You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.
It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world's.
Now Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius from Cyrene, Manaen, who grew up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch.
Then he took a loaf of bread, gave thanks, broke it in pieces, and handed it to them, saying, "This is my body, which is given for you. Keep on doing this in memory of me."
He is also the head of the body, which is the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself might have first place in everything.
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the full knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.
When someone is tempted, he should not say, "I am being tempted by God," because God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.
One day, divine beings presented themselves to the LORD, and Satan accompanied them.
Now an angel of the Lord told Philip, "Get up and go south on the road that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a deserted road."
To: Timothy, my dear child. May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Messiah Jesus our Lord be yours!
How blessed is the man who endures temptation! When he has passed the test, he will receive the victor's crown of life that God has promised to those who keep on loving him.
Abraham was as good as dead, yet from this one man came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity but one of power, love, and self-discipline.
Jesus also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves, thinking they were righteous, but who looked down on everyone else:
For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, the Messiah died for the ungodly.
"Similarly, it is like a man going on a trip, who called his servants and turned his money over to them.
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away.
But people who are cowardly, unfaithful, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars will find themselves in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."
so that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.
Aram fathered Amminadab, Amminadab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon fathered Salmon.
One day, as the crowd was pressing in on him to listen to God's word, Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret.
You believe that there is one God. That's fine! Even the demons believe that and tremble with fear.
Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there also will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.
Is anyone among you suffering? He should keep on praying. Is anyone cheerful? He should keep reciting psalms.
This is a record of the life of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Now all the believers were one in heart and soul, and nobody called any of his possessions his own. Instead, they shared everything they owned.
How blessed is the person, who does not take the advice of the wicked, who does not stand on the path with sinners, and who does not sit in the seat of mockers.
Absolutely not, I tell you! But if you don't repent, then you, too, will all die.
At certain times an angel of the Lord would go down into the pool and stir up the water, and whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was healed of whatever disease he had.
Therefore, because he always lives to intercede for them, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him.
Now those who had gathered together began to ask Jesus, "Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?"
because even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people."
Now God saw all that he had made, and indeed, it was very good! The twilight and the dawn were the sixth day.
"Therefore, let all the people of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!"
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple.
"Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me?" Jesus asked him. "The person who has seen me has seen the Father. So how can you say, "Show us the Father'?
The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Jesus closely to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, in order to find a way of accusing him of doing something wrong.
"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you can ask for anything you want, and you'll receive it.
Jesus answered, "The most important is, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,
All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned, each of us, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
For by the grace given to me I ask every one of you not to think of yourself more highly than you should think, rather to think of yourself with sober judgment on the measure of faith that God has assigned each of you.
Then he told them, "These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled."
But then a man named Ananias, with the consent of his wife Sapphira, sold some property.
After Jesus had risen early on the first day of that week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had driven out seven demons.
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up by training and instructing them about the Lord.
"You are not to seek vengeance or hold a grudge against the descendants of your people. Instead, love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD."
After the Sabbaths, around dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to take a look at the burial site.
Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom belonged to this world, my servants would fight to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish leaders. But for now my kingdom is not from here."
Do not act out of selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility think of others as being better than yourselves.
Our citizenship, however, is in heaven, and it is from there that we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Jesus.
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more severely than others.
For we live, move, and exist because of him, as some of your own poets have said: ""Since we are his children, too.'
Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."
After Jesus had taken the wine, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head and released his spirit.
After all, this is how holy women who set their hope on God used to make themselves beautiful in the past. They submitted themselves to their husbands,
He told the woman, "I'll greatly increase the pain of your labor during childbirth. It will be painful for you to bear children, "since your trust is turning toward your husband, and he will dominate you."
This is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness none at all!
For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass. The flower in it drops off, and its beauty is gone. That is how the rich person will fade away in his pursuits.
As good servant managers of God's grace in its various forms, serve one another with the gift each of you has received.
My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge of me. Because you rejected that knowledge, I will reject you as a priest for me. Since you forget the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.
On the same day, two of Jesus' followers were walking to a village called Emmaus, about 60 stadia from Jerusalem.
First of all, then, I urge you to offer to God petitions, prayers, intercessions, and expressions of thanks for all people,
"Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. So put me to the test in this right now," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and see if I won't throw open the windows of heaven for you and pour out on you blessing without measure.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword!
The Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who is hung on a tree!"
Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)
The king will answer them, "I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.'
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.
To: The exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, the people chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through the sanctifying action of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus, the Messiah, and to be sprinkled with his blood. May grace and peace be yours in abundance!
I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy in this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will strike him with the plagues that are written in this book.
I'll bless those who bless you, but I'll curse the one who curses you, and through you all the people of the earth will be blessed."
Then one of the scribes came near and heard the Sadducees arguing with one another. He saw how well Jesus answered them, so he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of them all?"
that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.
It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness,
"Therefore, everyone who listens to these messages of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on a rock.
This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.
Jesus told him, "I tell you with certainty, today you will be with me in Paradise."
Brothers, this is what I mean: Mortal bodies cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and what decays cannot inherit what does not decay.
"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD! Look to the rock from which you were cut, to the quarry from which you were hewn.
By his grace they are justified freely through the redemption that is in the Messiah Jesus,
For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you how the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread,
But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life."
God also told them, "Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant that grows throughout the earth, along with every tree that grows seed-bearing fruit. They will produce your food.
"I continued to observe the night vision and look! someone like the Son of Man was coming, accompanied by heavenly clouds. He approached the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.
From: Paul, a servant of Jesus the Messiah, called to be an apostle and set apart for God's gospel,
After these things, I looked, and there was a crowd so large that no one was able to count it! They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language. They were standing in front of the throne and the lamb and were wearing white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
"Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the person who doesn't enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a bandit.
"A fire blazes in their presence, and behind them a conflagration rages. Before they come, the land is like the garden in Eden; after they leave, there is only a barren wasteland. Indeed, nothing escapes them.
I've commanded you, haven't I? Be strong and courageous. Don't be fearful or discouraged, because the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."
Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.
"Please come, and let's reason together," implores the LORD. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they'll be white like snow. Though they're like crimson, they'll become like wool.
This is a trustworthy saying: The one who would an elder be, a noble task desires he.
"How blessed are those who make peace, because it is they who will be called God's children!
It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul passed through the inland districts and came to Ephesus. He found a few disciples there
"And whenever you pray, don't be like the hypocrites who love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward!
"You have heard that it was said, "You must love your neighbor' and hate your enemy.
For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.
The huge dragon was hurled down. That ancient serpent, called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, along with its angels.
This set of instructions is not to cease being a part of your conversations. Meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to carry out everything that's written in it, for then you'll prosper and succeed.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
For in this way you will be generously granted entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah.
Whatever you do, work at it wholeheartedly as though you were doing it for the Lord and not merely for people.
This is the reason I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah,
For you know that it was not with perishable things like silver or gold that you have been ransomed from the worthless way of life handed down to you by your ancestors,
Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came back to life and ruled with the Messiah for a thousand years.
Pray in the Spirit at all times with every kind of prayer and request. Likewise, be alert with your most diligent efforts and pray for all the saints.
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's feeding trough, but Israel doesn't know, and my people don't understand.
""At that time, Michael will arise, the great prince who will stand up on behalf of your people, and a time of trouble will come like there has never been since nations began until that time. Also at that time, your people will be delivered everyone who will have been written in the book.
The LORD saw that human evil was growing more and more throughout the earth, with every inclination of people's thoughts becoming only evil on a continuous basis.
But these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and so that through believing you may have life in his name.
In a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives
So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on those who practice these things and then do them yourself, do you think you will escape God's judgment?
Then Peter came up and asked him, "Lord, how many times may my brother sin against me and I have to forgive him? Seven times?"
When he found him, he brought him to Antioch, and for a whole year they were guests of the church and taught many people. It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.
he was chosen by lot to go into the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense, according to the custom of the priests.
"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
Yet before their children had been born or had done anything good or bad (so that God's plan of election might continue to operate
At this, he permitted him to be baptized. When Jesus had been baptized, he immediately came up out of the water. Suddenly, the heavens opened up for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.
The LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden in order to have him work it and guard it.
A voice cries out: "In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD; and in the desert a straight highway for our God.'
The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.
While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and handed it to the disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. This is my body."
Several days later, Jesus returned to Capernaum and it was reported that he was at home.
Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously.
When Jesus had come to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?"
Then someone in the crowd told him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me."
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the bottomless pit, with a large chain in his hand.
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
"Because I the LORD don't change; therefore you children of Jacob aren't destroyed."
When you were buried with the Messiah in baptism, you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead.
There is a pathway that seems right to a man, but in the end it's a road to death.
By reading this, you will be able to grasp my understanding of the secret about the Messiah,
It is he whom we proclaim as we admonish and wisely teach everyone, so that we may present everyone mature in the Messiah.
Not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
You are to love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.
For whoever keeps the whole Law but fails in one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
which is based on the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began.
Everyone who keeps living in sin also practices disobedience. In fact, sin is disobedience.
The person who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I, too, will love him and reveal myself to him."
So if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It's better for you to enter life injured than to have two hands and go to hell, to the fire that cannot be put out.
My brothers, do not let your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be tainted by favoritism.
and a rich person in his having been humbled, because he will fade away like a wild flower.
Then some men came down from Judea and started to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Law of Moses, you can't be saved."
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious gospel of the Messiah, who is the image of God.
"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you they're giving you confusing directions."
Do not grieve the Holy Spirit, by whom you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.
So now, what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away as you call on his name.'
Stop being afraid, little flock, because your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
As Jesus was setting out again, a man ran up to him, knelt down in front of him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
He was in the world, and the world was made through him. Yet the world did not recognize him.
How, then, can people call on someone they have not believed? And how can they believe in someone they have not heard about? And how can they hear without someone preaching?
This is, in fact, what you were called to do, because: The Messiah also suffered for you and left an example for you to follow in his steps.
As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord's Spirit.
That is why I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.
in my prayers at all times, asking that somehow by God's will I may at last succeed in coming to you.
Then Jesus called the crowd to himself along with his disciples and told them, "If anyone wants to follow me, he must deny himself, pick up his cross, and follow me continuously,
There is one body and one Spirit. Likewise, you were called to the one hope of your calling.
From: Paul and Timothy, servants of the Messiah Jesus. To: All the holy ones in Philippi, along with their overseers and ministers, who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.
Instead, by speaking the truth in love, we will grow up completely and become one with the head, that is, one with the Messiah,
"At that time, the kingdom from heaven will be comparable to ten bridesmaids who took their oil lamps and went out to meet the groom.
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. He doesn't live in shrines made by human hands,
But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me in white clothes because they are worthy.
that he lavished on us, along with all wisdom and understanding,
I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
Sometime later, God tested Abraham. He called out to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" he answered.
And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.
"We're wiping off your town's dust that clings to our feet in protest against you! But realize this: the kingdom of God is near!'
Don't be afraid, because I'm with you; don't be anxious, because I am your God. I keep on strengthening you; I'm truly helping you. I'm surely upholding you with my victorious right hand."
Therefore, as a fellow elder, a witness of the Messiah's sufferings, and one who shares in the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:
"A shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch will bear fruit from his roots.
This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is found in his Son.
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There won't be death anymore. There won't be any grief, crying, or pain, because the first things have disappeared."
There was a time when the entire earth spoke a common language with an identical vocabulary.
She would follow Paul and us and shout, "These men are servants of the Most High God and are proclaiming to you a way of salvation!"
Then I saw another angel flying overhead with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on earth to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
"You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and trust me and understand that I am the One. Before me no God was formed, nor will there be one after me.
Stop being afraid of those who kill the body but can't kill the soul. Instead, be afraid of the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell.
The eleven disciples went into Galilee to the hillside to which Jesus had directed them.
For this reason, since the day we heard about this, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of God's will with respect to all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
After he had suffered, he had shown himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during a period of 40 days and telling them about the kingdom of God.
Therefore, let no one judge you in matters of food and drink or with respect to a festival, a New Moon, or Sabbath days.
For in the gospel God's righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, "The righteous will live by faith."
Look! He is coming in the clouds. Every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. So be it! Amen.
They were praising God and enjoying the good will of all the people. Every day the Lord was adding to their number those who were being saved.
For you have not received a spirit of slavery that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
In the Messiah we were also chosen when we were predestined according to the purpose of the one who does everything that he wills to do,
For when one person says, "I follow Paul," and another person says, "I follow Apollos," you're following your own human nature, aren't you?
and the Devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were. They will be tortured day and night forever and ever.
"Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters! Also, you that have no money, come, buy, and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Let's not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Later, Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve. She became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have given birth to a male child the LORD."
I am baptizing you with water as evidence of repentance, but the one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
For you have been born again, not by a seed that perishes but by one that cannot perish by the living and everlasting word of God.
Jesus himself was about 30 years old when he began his ministry. He was (as legally calculated) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,
He answered, "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind. And you must love your neighbor as yourself."
And this is the confidence that we have in him: if we ask for anything according to his will, he listens to us.
that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.
By common confession, the secret of our godly worship is great: In flesh was he revealed to sight, kept righteous by the Spirit's might, adored by angels singing. To nations was he manifest, believing souls found peace and rest, our Lord in heaven reigning!
Who will separate us from the Messiah's love? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or a violent death do this?
Hold on to the pattern of healthy teachings that you have heard from me, along with the faith and love that are in the Messiah Jesus.
Now lifted up by God to heaven, a name above all others given, this matchless name possessing.
Let no filthy talk be heard from your mouths, but only what is good for building up people and meeting the need of the moment. This way you will administer grace to those who hear you.
"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father,
I am sending to you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."
Now after the population of human beings had increased throughout the earth, and daughters had been born to them,
Jesus told her, "Don't hold on to me, because I haven't yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, "I'm ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"
After Jesus had said this, he looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you.
Where do those fights and quarrels among you come from? They come from your selfish desires that are at war in your bodies, don't they?
"Watch out! I'm sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly, the LORD you are looking for will come to his Temple. He is the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. Watch out! He is coming!" says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.
At that time, some people who were there told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
And whatever you do, whether by speech or action, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
"You have heard that it was told those who lived long ago, "You are not to commit murder,' and, "Whoever murders will be subject to punishment.'
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Instead, continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah. Glory belongs to him both now and on that eternal day! Amen.
Little children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that an antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.
"So when you see the destructive desecration, mentioned by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader take note),
Listen to this message from the LORD, you descendants of Jacob and all the families of the descendants of Israel.
In every way I showed you that by working hard like this we should help the weak and remember the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
"Everyone who keeps on hearing these messages of mine and never puts them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! He is our merciful Father and the God of all comfort,
because I tell all of you with certainty that until heaven and earth disappear, not one letter or one stroke of a letter will disappear from the Law until everything has been accomplished.
and then repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that day the heavens will disappear with a roaring sound, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be exposed.
So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth were called "the uncircumcised" by those who called themselves "the circumcised." They underwent physical circumcision done by human hands.
We have come to know and rely on the love that God has for us. God is love, and the person who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
You learned about this gospel from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of the Messiah on your behalf.
Later on, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. This is what happened:
and under these a large number of sick people were lying blind, lame, or paralyzed waiting for the movement of the water.
Then the offering to the LORD by Judah and Jerusalem will be acceptable as it was in the past, even as in former years.
This message from the LORD came to me:
but you are not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because you will certainly die during the day that you eat from it."
In the presence of God and the Messiah Jesus, who is going to judge those who are living and those who are dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly appeal to you
From: James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah. To: The twelve tribes in the Dispersion. Greetings.
These are the family records of Noah: Noah was a righteous man. Blameless during his times, Noah communed with God.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you!
Therefore, let's not fall asleep like others do, but let's stay awake and be sober.
Therefore we regard the message of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp that is shining in a gloomy place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the Devil's strategies.
So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.
"You are not to craft for yourselves an idol or anything resembling what is in the skies above, or on earth beneath, or in the water sources under the earth.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that person be condemned!
For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people's own desires.
They kept the matter to themselves but argued about what "rising from the dead" meant.
Therefore, my brothers, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
He is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor recognizes him. But you recognize him, because he lives with you and will be in you.
These are the records of the universe at its creation. Onthe day that the LORD God made the earth and skies,
"Call to me and I'll answer you, and will tell you about great and hidden things that you don't know.'
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Caesar Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night.
"How blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness, because it is they who will be satisfied!
You will keep perfectly peaceful the one whose mind remains focused on you, because he remains in you.
For God, whom I serve with my spirit by preaching the gospel about his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you
"Listen to this message, you fat cows from Bashan, who live on the Samaritan mountains, who oppress the poor, who rob the needy, and who constantly ask your husbands for one more drink!"
to equip the saints, to do the work of ministry, and to build up the body of the Messiah
For if you possess these qualities, and if they continue to increase among you, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.
So let us keep on coming boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Through these he has given us his precious and wonderful promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, seeing that you have escaped the corruption that is in the world caused by evil desires.
Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but be an example for other believers in your speech, behavior, love, faithfulness, and purity.
For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of the Messiah, so that each of us may receive what he deserves for what he has done in his body, whether good or worthless.
"I knew you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart for me before you were born; I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations."
Then Peter stood up among the eleven apostles and raised his voice to address them:
Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and sinful enticements that oppose the teaching you have learned. Stay away from them,
Do not owe anyone anything except to love one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the Law.
He must be devoted to the trustworthy message that agrees with what we teach, so that he may be able to encourage others with healthy doctrine and refute those who oppose it.
because John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit a few days from now."
But not even Titus, who was with me, was forced to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
Practice carrying each other's burdens. In this way you will fulfill the law of the Messiah.
Continue to follow and be submissive to your leaders, since they are watching over your souls as those who will have to give a word of explanation. By doing this, you will be letting them carry out their duties joyfully, and not with grief, for that would be harmful for you.
Above everything else guard your heart, because from it flow the springs of life.
Many of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will awaken some to life everlasting, and some to disgrace and everlasting contempt.
"Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion; cry out, daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king is coming to you. He is righteous, and he is able to save. He is humble, and is riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
You know that you are God's sanctuary and that God's Spirit lives in you, don't you?
Then Jesus looked at his disciples and said, "How blessed are you who are destitute, because the kingdom of God is yours!
For by one Spirit all of us Jews and Greeks, slaves and free were baptized into one body and were all privileged to drink from one Spirit.
With one mind, all of them kept devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women (including Mary the mother of Jesus) and his brothers.
The person who practices sin belongs to the evil one, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason that the Son of God was revealed was to destroy what the Devil has been doing.
Then you will recite to one another psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; you will sing and make music to the Lord with your hearts;
yet we know that a person is not justified by doing what the Law requires, but rather by the faithfulness of Jesus the Messiah. We, too, have believed in the Messiah Jesus so that we might be justified by the faithfulness of the Messiah and not by doing what the Law requires, for no human being will be justified by doing what the Law requires.
But as it is written, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him."
After he was arrested according to the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified this very man and killed him using the hands of lawless men.
O how deep are God's riches, and wisdom, and knowledge! How unfathomable are his decisions and unexplainable are his ways!
Just then a man came up to Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what good deed should I do to have eternal life?"
But I don't place any value on my life, if only I can finish my race and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus of testifying to the gospel of God's grace.
And since I'm going away to prepare a place for you, I'll come back again and welcome you into my presence, so that you may be where I am.
and from Jesus the Messiah, the witness, the faithful one, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their fall means riches for the gentiles, how much more will their full participation mean!
Jesus told him, ""If you are able?' Everything is possible for the person who believes!"
to proclaim the message. Be ready to do this whether or not the time is convenient. Refute, warn, and encourage with the utmost patience when you teach.
Therefore, God will not justify any human being by means of the actions prescribed by the Law, for through the Law comes the full knowledge of sin.
"Speak to the Israelis and tell them that when any person brings an offering to the LORD from among you, whether he brings on offering of animals from either cattle or flock,
Once, as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a slave girl who had a spirit of fortune-telling and who had brought her owners a great deal of money by predicting the future.
From Miletus he sent messengers to Ephesus to ask the elders of the church to meet with him.
"As for me, I know that my Vindicator is alive; And he, the Last One, will take his stand on the soil.
"Therefore, everyone who acknowledges me before people I, too, will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
I want to know the Messiah what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,
While Peter was still making this statement, the Holy Spirit fell on all the people who were listening to his message.
Instead, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have concealed his face from you so that he won't listen.
United in purpose, they went to the Temple every day, ate at each other's homes, and shared their food with glad and humble hearts.
Jesus, however, went to the Mount of Olives.
May the God of peace himself make you holy in every way. And may your whole being spirit, soul, and body remain blameless when our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, appears.
Be in awe and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted throughout the earth.
"To the messenger of the church in Laodicea, write: "The Amen, the witness who is faithful and true, the originator of God's creation, says this:
I say to those who are unmarried, especially to widows: It is good for them to remain like me.
I will pour out on the house of David and on the residents of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and of supplications, and they will look to me the one whom they pierced.'"
Now this hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened.
John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, because there was plenty of water there. People kept coming and were being baptized,
About three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eli, eli, lema sabachthani?", which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
There is no fear where love exists. Rather, perfect love banishes fear, for fear involves punishment, and the person who lives in fear has not been perfected in love.
During the reign of King Herod of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly order of Abijah. His wife was a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
In fact, under the Law almost everything is cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of the blood there is no forgiveness.
in case I am delayed, so that you may know how to behave in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now), so that I might reap a harvest among you, just as I have among the rest of the gentiles.
As they were going along the road, they came to some water. The eunuch said, "Look, there's some water. What keeps me from being baptized?"
Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep a clear head, and set your hope completely on the grace to be given you when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.
With this the heavens and the earth were completed, including all of their vast array.
A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.
Josiah fathered Jechoniah and his brothers at the time of the deportation to Babylon.
"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your mint, dill, and cummin, but have neglected the more important matters of the Law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These are the things you should have practiced, without neglecting the others.
First of all, I thank my God through Jesus the Messiah for all of you, because the news about your faith is being reported throughout the world.
For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him.
The LORD told Samuel, "Don't look at his appearance or his height, for I've rejected him. Truly, God does not see what man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart."
They will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
whom God offered as a place where atonement by the Messiah's blood would occur through faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because he had waited patiently to deal with sins committed in the past.
Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating.
He spoke openly and, remaining true to himself, admitted, "I am not the Messiah."
The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.
So then, just as you have received the Messiah Jesus the Lord, continue to live dependent on him.
Indeed, all of you who were baptized into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah.
Meanwhile, Jesus kept on growing wiser and more mature, and in favor with God and his fellow man.
The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" Let everyone who hears this say, "Come!" Let everyone who is thirsty come! Let anyone who wants the water of life take it as a gift!
Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. "We must endure many hardships," they said, "to get into the kingdom of God."
"There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and there will be distress on earth among the nations that are confused by the roaring of the sea and its waves.
Then he told those who were selling the doves, "Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father's house a marketplace!"
"Take a census of the entire Israeli community, numbering them by their tribes and by ancestral houses. List the names of every male one-by-one,
Because if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
Having been circumcised on the eighth day, I am of the nation of Israel, from the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. As far as the Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee.
And look at ships! They are so big that it takes strong winds to drive them, yet they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the helmsman directs.
You will help them understand and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that their sins will be forgiven and they will receive a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
"During the reigns of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor its sovereignty left in the hands of another people. It will shatter and crush all of these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
Then Jesus returned to Galilee by the power of the Spirit. Meanwhile, the news about him spread throughout the surrounding country.
If he called those to whom a message from God came "gods' (and the Scripture cannot be disregarded),
Look at my hands and my feet, because it's really me. Touch me and look at me, because a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones as you see that I have."
Therefore, leaving behind the elementary teachings about the Messiah, let us continue to be carried along to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead actions, faith toward God,
"Truly the Lord GOD will do nothing he has mentioned without revealing his purposes to his servants the prophets.
I'll do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
One afternoon, Peter and John were on their way to the Temple for the three o'clock prayer time.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," declares the Lord God, "the one who is, who was, and who is coming, the Almighty."
After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, to Tiberias).
He gave himself for us to set us free from every wrong and to cleanse us so that we could be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good deeds.
You have heard me tell you, "I'm going away, but I'm coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I'm going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.
What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.
Little children, you belong to God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
"Look! The days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine throughout the land not a famine of food or a thirst for water but rather a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
Then a war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels fought back.
For this reason, God delivered them to sexual impurity as they followed the lusts of their hearts and dishonored their bodies with one another.
I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified about your truthfulness and how you live according to the truth
They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because you were slaughtered. With your blood you purchased people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
"Then the king will say to those on his right, "Come, you who have been blessed by my Father! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,
This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.
"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory, honor, and power, because you created all things; they came into existence and were created because of your will."
I'm the gate. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved. He'll come in and go out and find pasture.
Nicodemus asked him, "How can that be?"
"No one knows when that day or hour will come not the angels in heaven, not the Son, but only the Father.
Remind believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, and to be ready to do any honorable kind of work.
Now in Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was known as the Italian Regiment.
Meanwhile, Moses continued tending the sheep that belonged to his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the sheep to the western desert and came to Horeb, God's mountain, where
When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and announced, "I am God Almighty. Live in constant awareness that I'm always with you, and be blameless.
Then they began to discuss among themselves which one of them was going to do this.
In the same way, faith by itself, if it does not prove itself with actions, is dead.
has in these last days spoken to us by a Son whom he appointed to be the heir of everything and through whom he also made the universe.
When all the people had been baptized, Jesus, too, was baptized. While he was praying, heaven opened,
Then he told them, "Be careful to guard yourselves against every kind of greed, because a person's life doesn't consist of the amount of possessions he has."
These people will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life."
and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws that he gave us through his servants the prophets.
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David.
Now when God put everything under him, he left nothing outside his control. However, at the present time we do not yet see everything put under him. But we do see someone who was made a little lower than the angels. He is Jesus, who is crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might experience death for everyone.
We have different gifts based on the grace that was given to us. So if your gift is prophecy, use your gift in proportion to your faith.
After this, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside. He spent some time there with them and began baptizing.
Brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, I urge all of you to be in agreement and not to have divisions among you, so that you may be perfectly united in your understanding and opinions.
When the days grew closer for Jesus to be taken up to heaven, he was determined to continue his journey to Jerusalem.
Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born from God, and everyone who loves the parent also loves the child.
Now may God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
"See! I am coming soon! My reward is with me to repay everyone according to his behavior.
Some people were bringing little children to Jesus to have him touch them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
Now about eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John, and James with him and went up on a mountain to pray.
The Law of the LORD is perfect, restoring life. The testimony of the LORD is steadfast, making foolish people wise.
Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of arguing over differences of opinion.
I'm a flower from Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
Now is the time for the judgment of this world to begin. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.
"Immediately after the troubles of those days, "The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of heaven will be shaken loose.'
"Will a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you ask, "How are we robbing you?' "By the tithe and the offering.
"Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen one, in whom I delight. I've placed my Spirit upon him; and he'll deliver his justice throughout the world.
"Abide in me, and I will abide in you. Just as the branch cannot produce fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.
For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit,
It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.
Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church, and with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious crop from his land, being patient with it until it receives the fall and the spring rains.
By faith we understand that time was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are invisible.
Jesus immediately had the disciples get into a boat and cross to the other side ahead of him, while he sent the crowds away.
For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God himself has made it plain to them.
Now Jesus was saying to the disciples, "A rich man had a servant manager who was accused of wasting his assets.
I have other sheep that don't belong to this fold. I must lead these also, and they'll listen to my voice. So there will be one flock and one shepherd.
Baptism, which is symbolized by that water, now saves you also, not by removing dirt from the body, but by asking God for a clear conscience based on the resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah,
because he has set a day when he is going to judge the world with justice through a man whom he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead."
Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from two to three measures.
This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have rivers of living water flowing from his heart."
because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.
also take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Isn't he really speaking for our benefit? Yes, this was written for our benefit, because the one who plows should plow in hope, and the one who threshes should thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.
No one remembers those in the past, nor will they be remembered by those who come after them.
For I want to let you know about this secret, brothers, so that you will not claim to be wiser than you are: Stubbornness has come to part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles comes to faith.
After Moses and Aaron arrived, they told Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Let my people go so they may make a pilgrimage for me in the desert.'"
"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamore trees have been cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.'
Anyone whose name was not found written in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come. He answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with a visible display.
He answered them, "It isn't for you to know what times or periods the Father has fixed by his own authority.
Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They are corrupt and commit evil deeds; not one of them practices what is good.
After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.
The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.
so will my message be that goes out of my mouth it won't return to me empty. Instead, it will accomplish what I desire, and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Don't continue to talk proudly, and don't speak arrogantly, for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
But when Philip proclaimed the good news about the kingdom of God and about the name of Jesus the Messiah, men and women believed and were baptized.
That is why I told you that you will die in your sins, for unless you believe that I AM, you'll die in your sins."
Now Saul heartily approved of putting Stephen to death. That day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except for the apostles was scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria.
"How blessed are those who are pure in heart, because it is they who will see God!
because what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all the passages of Scripture about himself.
When the woman saw that the tree produced good food, was attractive in appearance, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. Then she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate some, too.
I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by your Name, the Name that you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one.
Yet I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I am living in this bodily tent,
The LORD God commanded the man: "You may freely eat from every tree of the garden,
I testified to both Jews and Greeks about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus.
For the husband is the head of his wife as the Messiah is the head of the church. It is he who is the Savior of the body.
Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem."
For if we choose to go on sinning after we have learned the full truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.
The LORD is my light and my salvation whom will I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom will I be afraid?
At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from wise and intelligent people and have revealed them to infants.
The Jewish leaders said, "This sanctuary has been under construction for 46 years, and you're going to rebuild it in three days?"
Some time later, a message came from the LORD to Abram in a vision. "Stop being afraid, Abram," he said. "I myself your shield am your very great reward."
"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."
There is no difference between Jew and Greek, because they all have the same Lord, who gives richly to all who call on him.
having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the Messiah Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
The earth and everything in it exists for the LORD the world and those who live in it.
"I'm now entrusting you to God and to the message of his grace, which is able to build you up and secure for you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
What profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?
because false messiahs and false prophets will appear and display great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Even when you were dead because of your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with him when he forgave us all of our offenses,
This is the very reason I wrote you, so that when I did come I might not be made sad by those who should have made me happy. For I had confidence that all of you would share the joy that I have.
There once was a man in the land of Uz named Job. The man was blameless as well as upright. He feared God and kept away from evil.
God is not a human male he doesn't lie, nor is he a human being he never vacillates. Once he speaks up, he's going to act, isn't he? Once he makes a promise, he'll fulfill it, won't he?
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Although he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might become rich.
From: Paul, an apostle of the Messiah Jesus by God's will. To: His holy and faithful people in Ephesus who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set Barnabas and Saul apart for me to do the work for which I called them."
Brothers, I do not consider myself to have embraced it yet. But this one thing I do: Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Like newborn babies, thirst for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in your salvation.
I am not saying this because I am in any need, for I have learned to be content in whatever situation I am in.
"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt from the house of slavery.
This is the revelation of Jesus the Messiah, which God gave him to show his servants the things that must happen soon. He made it known by sending his messenger to his servant John,
Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, for it will not come unless the rebellion takes place first and the man of sin, who is destined for destruction, is revealed.
That is why the mind that focuses on human nature is hostile toward God. It refuses to submit to the authority of God's Law because it is powerless to do so.
They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."
And there are three witnesses on earth the Spirit, the water, and the blood and these three are one.
"Now you must fear the LORD and serve him in faithfulness and truth. Throw away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Instead, serve the LORD.
Asaph fathered Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat fathered Joram, Joram fathered Uzziah,
Then Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he was asking his disciples, "Who do people say I am?"
so that we who had already fixed our hope on the Messiah might live for his praise and glory.
Now that we have been justified by his blood, how much more will we be saved from wrath through him!
So Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
So Paul stood up in front of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in every way.
As you come to him, the living stone who was rejected by people but was chosen and precious in God's sight,
He presented another parable to them: "The kingdom from heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field.
And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."
For we have many parts in one body, but these parts do not all have the same function.
He told them, "Because of your lack of faith. I tell all of you with certainty, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.
But I say to you, anyone who stares at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
21Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you because I know that you will do even more than I ask.
For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?
Now I am rejoicing while suffering for you as I complete in my flesh whatever remains of the Messiah's sufferings on behalf of his body, which is the church.
because everyone who is born from God has overcome the world. Our faith is the victory that overcomes the world.
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who keep asking him!"
that you once practiced as you lived according to the ways of this present world and according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now active in those who are disobedient.
Now because you are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts to cry out, "Abba! Father!"
When he had said this, he breathed on them and told them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working."
you, too, as living stones, are building yourselves up into a spiritual house and a holy priesthood, so that you may offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus, the Messiah.
For as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But everything comes from God.
He answered them, "Haven't you read that the one who made them at the beginning "made them male and female'
But I say to you, anyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be subject to punishment. And whoever says to his brother "Raka!' will be subject to the Council. And whoever says, "You fool!' will be subject to hell fire.
Now if we are children, we are heirs heirs of God and co-heirs with the Messiah if, in fact, we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.