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"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.
All Scripture is inspired by God, and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in doing what is right,
I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.
But the product of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
For it is by His unmerited favor through faith that you have been saved; it is not by anything that you have done, it is the gift of God.
Yes, we know that all things go on working together for the good of those who keep on loving God, who are called in accordance with God's purpose.
Go then and make disciples of all the nations, baptize them into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
Stop living in accordance with the customs of this world, but by the new ideals that mold your minds continue to transform yourselves, so as to find and follow God's will; that is, what is good, well-pleasing to Him, and perfect.
Jesus answered him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
but you are going to receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you must be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria, and to the very ends of the earth."
Peter said to them, "You must repent -- and, as an expression of it, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ -- that you may have your sins forgiven; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,
For the wages paid by sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,
In the beginning the Word existed; and the Word was face to face with God; yea, the Word was God Himself.
He saved us, not for upright deeds that we had done, but in accordance with His mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
For if with your lips you acknowledge the fact that Jesus is Lord, and in your hearts you believe that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.
But God proves His love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
And He has given some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,
And they devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship with one another, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Come to me, all of you who toil and carry burdens, and I, yes, I, will lead you into rest.
If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.
Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."
A thief does not come for any purpose but to steal and kill and destroy; I have come for people to have life and have it till it overflows.
So here is the comparison: As through one man sin came into the world, and death as the consequence of sin, and death spread to all men; because all men sinned.
Then He said to them, "You must go all over the world and preach the good news to all the creation.
There is no salvation by anyone else, for no one else in all the wide world has been appointed among men as our only medium by which to be saved."
For if anybody is in union with Christ, he is the work of a new creation; the old condition has passed away, a new condition has come.
Then Jesus came up to them, and said, "Full authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Since we have been given right standing with God through faith, then let us continue enjoying peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Stop being worried about anything, but always, in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving, keep on making your wants known to God.
So then there is no condemnation at all for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.
Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I myself no longer live, but Christ is living in me; the life I now live as a mortal man I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
For I am not ashamed of the good news, for it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who trusts, of the Jew first and then of the Greek.
I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another.
Now there was a man named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees and was a leader among the Jews.
Do your best to present yourself to God an approved workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, who properly presents the message of truth.
But as your first duty keep on looking for His standard of doing right, and for His will, and then all these things will be yours besides.
And I will ask I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper, to remain with you to the end of the age;
Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,
God is a spiritual Being, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and reality."
Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, so as to continue to be shepherds of the church of God, which He bought with His own blood.
For God's anger from heaven is being uncovered against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth;
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for He has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and
Jesus answered, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was winning and baptizing more disciples than John --
Now faith is the assurance of the things we hope for, the proof of the reality of the things we cannot see.
For God's message is alive and full of power in action, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the depths of soul and spirit, to the dividing of joints and marrow, and passing judgment on the thoughts and purposes of the heart.
So practice confessing your sins to one another, and praying for one another, that you may be cured. An upright man's prayer, when it keeps at work, is very powerful.
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.
But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into the whole truth, for He will not speak on His own authority but will tell what is told Him, and will announce to you the things that are to come.
Everybody must obey the civil authorities that are over him, for no authority exists except by God's permission; the existing authorities have been established by Him,
And I, yes I, tell you, your name from now on is to be Peter, Rock, and on a massive rock like this I will build my church, and the powers of the underworld shall never overthrow it.
"When the Son of Man comes in His splendor, and all the angels with Him, He will take His seat on His splendid throne,
It was through Him that everything came into existence, and apart from Him not a single thing came into existence.
The Jews there were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message with all eagerness and carried on a daily study of the Scriptures to see if Paul's message was true.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.
You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
He came for the purpose of testifying, to testify to the light, so that everyone through him might come to believe.
From now on you must grow stronger through union with the Lord and through His mighty power.
And He answered him, "'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'
Yes, He is the exact likeness of the unseen God, His first-born Son who existed before any created thing,
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.
"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.
Now, brothers, practice thinking on what is true, what is honorable, what is right, what is pure, what is lovable, what is high-toned, yes, on everything that is excellent or praiseworthy.
but without faith it is impossible to please Him, for anyone who approaches God must believe that there is a God and that He gives rewards to all who earnestly try to find Him.
while we are waiting for the realization of our blessed hope at the glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Christ Jesus,
So faith comes from hearing what is told, and hearing through the message about Christ.
So He made a lash out of cords, and drove them all, together with the sheep and cattle, out of the temple court, scattered the money-changers' coins and upset their tables.
You must consider it the purest joy, my brothers, when you are involved in various trials,
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in foreign languages as the Spirit granted them to utter divine things.
He who believes it and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe it will be condemned.
They answered, "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you and your household will be saved."
But if any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who generously gives to everyone and never reproaches one with its lack, and it will be given to him.
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life myself. Whoever continues to believe in me will live right on even though he dies,
So they accepted his message and were baptized, and about three thousand persons united with them on that day.
After saying this, He was taken up while they were looking at Him, and a cloud swept under Him and carried Him out of their sight.
On the first day of the week when we had met to break bread, Paul addressed them, since he was leaving the next day, and prolonged his speech till midnight.
but in your hearts be consecrated to Christ as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who asks a reason for the hope you have. But you must do it in gentleness and reverence,
Now eternal life means knowing you as the only true God and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have a share in the kingdom of God? Stop being misled; people who are sexually immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or guilty of unnatural sexual vice
Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, I existed before Abraham was born."
Forever since the creation of the world, His invisible characteristics -- His eternal power and divine nature -- have been made intelligible and clearly visible by His works. So they are without excuse,
But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
It was bit by bit and in many different ways that God in olden times spoke to our forefathers through the prophets,
"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in dazzling luxury every day.
I am now standing at the door and knocking. If anyone listens to my voice and opens the door, I will be his guest and feast with him, and he with me.
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only those who practice doing the will of my Father in heaven.
The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
The sick man answered, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved, but while I am trying to get down, somebody else steps down ahead of me."
So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,
Whoever trusts in Him is never to come up for judgment, but whoever does not trust in Him has already received his sentence, because he has not trusted in the name of God's only Son.
You must have a turn of mind that is free from avarice; you must be content with what you have, for God Himself has said, "I will never fail you, I will never forsake you."
Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."
"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.
For our contest is not with human foes alone, but with the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark world; that is, with the spirit-forces of evil challenging us in the heavenly contest.
that you may better know the certainty of those things that you have been taught.
"Keep on asking, and the gift will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and the door will open to you.
Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,
He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, unless God is with him."
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
Having heard, they began to leave one by one, starting with the eldest, until only Jesus was left with the woman.
You are the light of the world. A city that is built upon a hill cannot be hidden.
Now the birth of Christ Jesus occurred under these conditions: After His mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, but before they had lived together, she was found to be an expectant mother through the influence of the Holy Spirit.
Dearly beloved, stop believing every so-called spiritual utterance, but keep testing them to see whether they come from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
There is no room for Jew or Greek, no room for slave or freeman, no room for male or female, for you are all one through union with Christ Jesus.
Is anyone sick among you? He should call in the elders of the church, and they should pray over him, and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord,
Just then an expert in the law got up to test Him by asking, "Teacher, what shall I do to get possession of eternal life?"
Also we do not want you to have any misunderstanding, brothers, about those who are falling asleep, so as to keep you from grieving over them as others do who have no hope.
Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, in whom there is no variation or changing shadow.
He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.
I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."
You too, as you have heard the message of the truth, the good news that means your salvation, and as you have trusted in Him too, have been stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,
You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,
So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.
The Lord is not slow about His promise, in the sense in which some think of slowness, but He is really dealing patiently with you, because He is not willing for any to perish but for all to have an opportunity to repent?
Then the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and so your child will be called holy, the Son of God.
A religious worship that is pure and stainless in the sight of God the Father is this: To look after orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep one's own self unstained by the world.
Whoever trusts in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever refuses to trust in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God continues to remain on him.
You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,
"Again, if your brother wrongs you, go and while alone with him show him the wrong. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
and said to them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This very Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in just the way you have seen Him go up into heaven."
So now repent and turn to Him, to have your sins wiped out, that times of revival may come from the presence of the Lord,
For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.
My brothers, what good is there in a man's saying that he has faith, if he has no good deeds to prove it? Such faith cannot save him, can it?
For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.
Or, do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
the older women, too, to be reverent in their deportment, and not to be slanderers or slaves to heavy drinking, but to be teachers of what is right,
What is our conclusion then? Are we to continue to sin for His unmerited favor to multiply?
Stop getting drunk on wine, for that means profligacy, but ever be filled with the Spirit,
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.
Now in those days an edict was issued by the Emperor Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.
For there is but one God and one intermediary between God and men, the man Christ Jesus
"You keep on searching the Scriptures, for you yourselves suppose that you will get possession of eternal life through them; and yet they are witnesses that testify to me,
It is through union with Him that we have redemption by His blood and the forgiveness of our shortcomings, in accordance with the generosity of His unmerited favor
Stop being surprised at this, for the time is coming when all that are in the graves will listen to His voice,
But if we continue to live in the light, just as He is in the light, we have unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son continues to cleanse us from every sin.
No one has ever seen God; the only son, Deity Himself, who lies upon His Father's breast, has made him known.
So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,
For I passed on to you, among the primary principles of the good news, what I had received, that Christ died for our sins, in accordance with the Scriptures,
They are children of the world; this is why they speak what the world inspires, and why the world listens to them.
I mean this: Practice living by the Spirit and then by no means will you gratify the cravings of your lower nature.
But you are not living on the plane of the lower nature, but on the spiritual plane, if the Spirit of God has His home within you. Unless a man has the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
In the evening of that same first day of the week, even with the doors of the room bolted where the disciples had met for fear of the Jews, Jesus went in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"
and saying, "Where is His promised coming? For ever since our forefathers fell asleep everything has remained exactly as it was from the beginning of creation!"
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the last day.
for it was through Him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him.
And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent on the pole, the Son of Man must be lifted up,
"Go in by the narrow gate, for broad and roomy is the road that leads to destruction, and many are going in by it.
Though God overlooked those times of ignorance, He now commands all men everywhere to repent,
Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?"
So if you have been raised to life in fellowship with Christ, keep on seeking the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;
Keep on obeying this message; do not merely listen to it, and so deceive yourselves.
So as God's own chosen people, consecrated and dearly loved, you must once for all clothe yourselves with tenderheartedness, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience; you must keep on
Let us stop neglecting our meeting together, as some do, but let us continue to encourage one another, and all the more because you see that the great day is drawing near.
For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,
In those days, as the number of the disciples was increasing, complaint was made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.
I now leave you the blessing of peace, I give you the blessing of my own peace. I myself do not give it in the way the world gives it. Stop letting your hearts be troubled or timid.
For everyone who keeps on asking, receives, and everyone who keeps on seeking, finds, and to the one who keeps on knocking, the door will open.
He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,
Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.
I am the good shepherd myself. The good shepherd gives his own life for his sheep.
For we do not have a High Priest who is incapable of sympathizing with us in our weaknesses, but we have One who was tempted in every respect as we are, and yet without committing any sin.
"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its strength, what can make it salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden under foot.
He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,
Be calm and alert. Your opponent the devil is always prowling about like a roaring lion, trying to devour you.
In the same way the Spirit, too, is helping us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself pleads for us with unspeakable yearnings,
Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.
All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never, no, never reject anyone who comes to me,
Stop loving the world, or the things that are in the world. If anyone persists in loving the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart,
"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.
See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
Then Peter opened his mouth and said, "Now I really see that God shows no partiality,
Then He said to them all, "If anyone chooses to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders daily, and continue to follow me.
Philip answered Him, "Forty dollars' worth of bread is not enough to give them all even a scanty meal apiece."
One Sabbath, when He went to take a meal at the house of a Pharisee who was a member of the council, they continued to watch Him closely.
So He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and as His habit was on the Sabbath, He went to the synagogue and stood up to read.
I left you in Crete for this express purpose, to set in order the things that are lacking, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you --
So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.
Now when Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Judea in the days of King Herod, stargazers came from the East to Jerusalem
Let the message of Christ continue to live in you in all its wealth of wisdom; keep on teaching it to one another and training one another in it with thankfulness, in your hearts singing praise to God with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
because you recognize this truth above all else, that no prophecy in Scripture is to be interpreted by one's own mind,
"I make this petition, not for them only, but for all who ever come to believe in me through their message,
My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone ever sins, we have One who pleads our case with the Father, Jesus Christ, One who is righteous.
On the last day, the great day, of the feast, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
Now the practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."
This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.
That night at once the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea, and on arriving there they went to the Jewish synagogue.
For I have full assurance that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor the present nor the future
Let your light shine before people in such a way that they may see your good deeds, and praise your Father in heaven.
I wrote my first volume, Theophilus, about all that Jesus did and taught from the beginning
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple court, and said to him, "See! You are now well. Stop sinning or something worse may befall you."
spiritual blessing and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
What are we then to say to facts like these? If God is for us, who can be against us?
For I am certain of this very thing, that He who began the good work in you will go on until the day of Jesus Christ to complete it.
Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.
for no prophecy has ever yet originated in man's will, but men who were led by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.
Now as they were journeying on, He came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him to her house.
So, my dearly loved friends, as you have always been obedient, so now with reverence and awe keep on working clear down to the finishing point of your salvation not only as though I were with you but much more because I am away;
"And when He comes, He will bring conviction to worldly people about sin and uprightness and judgment;
and you pay special attention to the man who wears the fine clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in this fine place," and say to the poor man, "Stand up, or sit there on the floor at my feet,"
Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him.
If we claim "We are already free from sin," we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in our hearts.
"Look out for false prophets, who come to you under the guise of sheep, but inside they are devouring wolves.
Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In accordance with His great mercy He has begotten us anew to an ever living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;
Once He was praying in a certain place, and when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples."
Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.
Now He told them the following story to show how necessary it is for people always to pray and never to give up:
In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.
but when the proper time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to law,
Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days."
Let us continue so to consider one another as to stimulate one another to love and good deeds.
So, if there is any appeal in our union with Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if we have any common share in the Spirit, if you have any tenderheartedness and sympathy,
Stop forming intimate and inconsistent relations with unbelievers. What partnership can right-doing have with law-breaking, or how can light participate with darkness?
Do not be deceived anymore; God is not to be scoffed at. A person will reap just what he sows, whatever it is.
Now great crowds were going along with Him, and all at once He turned and said to them:
keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
After they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than you are to these things?" Peter answered Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs."
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. Whoever comes to me will never get hungry, and whoever believes in me will never get thirsty.
So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes?
From one forefather He made every nation of mankind, for living all over the face of the earth, fixing their appointed times and the limits of their lands,
And she will have a son, and you must name Him Jesus, for it is He who is to save His people from their sins."
Or, are you not conscious that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have as a gift from God? Furthermore, you are not your own,
And so He has put all things under His feet and made Him the supreme Head of the church,
Then the Jews addressed Him and asked, "What sign can you show us that you have authority to act in this way?"
It is what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, what our own hands have touched, about the very message of life --
Now Saul, as he was still breathing threats of murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
For I consider all that we suffer in this present life is nothing to be compared with the glory which by-and-by is to be uncovered for us.
The man who had been cured did not know who He was, for since there was a crowd at the place, Jesus had slipped away.
This is why God has given them up to degrading passions. For their females have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural,
To Him who by His power that is at work within us can do surpassingly more than all we ask or imagine,
It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dearly loved Son,
and teach them to practice all the commands that I have given you. And I myself will surely be with you all the days, down to the very close of an age."
"Fellow Israelites, listen to what I say. Jesus of Nazareth, as you yourselves well know, a man accredited to you by God through mighty deeds and wonders and wonder-works which God performed through Him right here among you,
Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and for forty days He was led about in the desert under the Spirit's guidance,
Jesus again said to them, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father has sent me forth, so I am now sending you."
"Blessed are those who feel poor in spiritual things, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
So some of His disciples said to one another, "What does He mean by telling us, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"
Now one of the Pharisees invited Him to take dinner with him. So He came to the Pharisee's house and took His place at the table.
Dearly beloved, we are now God's children, but what we are going to be has not been unveiled. We know that if it is unveiled, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it, from whose presence earth and sky fled away, no more to be found.
"The time is ripe and the kingdom of God is near; repent and believe in the good news."
He answered them, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking.'"
Since many writers have undertaken to compose narratives about the facts established among us,
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on before Him, two by two, to every town or place which He was going to visit.
When He saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain. After He had taken His seat, His disciples came up to Him.
And they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both of them were far advanced in years.
No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.
No temptation has taken hold of you but what is common to human nature. And God is to be trusted not to let you be tempted beyond your strength, but when temptation comes, to make a way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.
Now on the Sabbath they rested, in accordance with the commandment, but on the first day of the week at early dawn they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared.
Since then we have in Jesus, the Son of God, a great High Priest who has gone right up to heaven itself, let us continue to keep a firm hold on our profession of faith in Him.
Judah the father of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar; Perez the father of Hezron, Hezron the father of Aram,
You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.
And Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan so completely possessed your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourselves a part of the money received for the land?
Now let me remind you, brothers, of the essence of the good news which I proclaimed to you, which you accepted, on which you now are standing,
"Take care not to do your good deeds in public, to attract the attention of people; if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.
and that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures which can give you wisdom that leads to salvation through the faith that leans on Christ Jesus.
Now after John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God:
When they heard this, they were stabbed to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
My God will amply supply your every need, through Christ Jesus, from His riches in glory.
Then I saw heaven thrown open and a white horse appeared. His rider was called Faithful and True, and in justice He passes judgment and wages war.
I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father.
Then you must practice dealing with others as you would like for them to deal with you, for this is the summing up of the law and the prophets.
And the following signs will attend those who believe: By using my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign languages;
But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone can man live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
Though He was existing in the nature of God, He did not think His being on an equality with God a thing to be selfishly grasped,
Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.
But He gives a greater spiritual blessing. He says, "God opposes haughty people but blesses humble people."
But I say to you who listen now to me, practice loving your enemies, practice doing good to those who hate you,
Take care that nobody captures you by the idle fancies of his so-called philosophy, following human tradition and the world's crude notions instead of Christ.
And this good news of the kingdom must be preached all over the inhabited world, for a testimony to all the heathen, and then the end will come.
'It will occur in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all mankind. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will have visions. Your old men will have dreams.
and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind, and your whole strength.'
"The virgin will become pregnant and have a son, and they will call Him Immanuel" -- which means "God with us."
And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.
Continue to live in peace with everybody and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.
For the Lord Himself, at the summons sounded by the archangel's call and by God's trumpet, will come down from heaven, and first of all the dead in union with Christ will rise,
For everything that was written in the earlier times was written for our instruction, so that by our patient endurance and through the encouragement the Scriptures bring we might continuously cherish our hope.
Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, because they continuously give their attention to deceiving spirits and the things that demons teach
You faithless wives! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wants to be a friend to the world puts himself down as an enemy to God.
But now God's way of giving men right standing with Himself has come to light; a way without connection with the law, and yet a way to which the law and the prophets testify.
By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."
Practice forgiving others, and you will be forgiven. Practice giving to others, and they will give to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, people will pour into your lap. For the measure you use with others they in turn will use with you."
If I could speak the languages of men, of angels too, and have no love, I am only a rattling pan or a clashing cymbal.
while all the throng of people were praying outside at the hour of the incense burning.
Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.
So you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but you are fellow-citizens of God's people and members of His family;
And once while He was eating with them, He charged them not to leave Jerusalem but to wait for what the Father had promised. "You have heard me speak of it," He said,
By the help of the Lord always keep up the glad spirit; yes, I will repeat it, keep up the glad spirit.
For the message of the cross is nonsense to those who are in the process of being destroyed, but it is the power of God to those who are in the process of being saved.
and I give to them eternal life, and they shall never get lost, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.
I am astonished that you are beginning so soon to turn away from Him who called you by the favor of Christ, to a different good news,
how God consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and then He went about doing good and curing all who were overpowered by the devil, because God was with Him.
"Then He will say to those at His left, 'Be gone from me, you who are now cursed, to the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
You must understand this, my dearly loved brothers. Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to get angry;
And He is Himself the atoning sacrifice for our sins; and not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.
Once when he was acting as priest before God, when his division was on duty, it fell to his lot,
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who is called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen who was an intimate friend of the governor, and Saul.
Then He took a loaf, gave thanks, and broke it in pieces, and gave it to them, and said, "This is my body which is to be given for you. Do this as a memorial to me."
Yes, He is the Head of the church as His body. For He is the beginning, the first-born among the dead, so that He alone should stand first in everything.
because His divine power has given us everything that is needful for life and piety, through our full knowledge of Him who through His glory and excellence has called us to Him.
No one must say, when he is tempted to do evil, "I have a temptation from God to do evil," for God cannot be tempted to do evil, and He never tempts anyone to do so.
Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get up and go south by the road that leads from Jerusalem to Gaza; this is the desert road."
to my dearly loved child, Timothy: spiritual blessing, mercy, and peace be with you from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Blessed is the person who endures trial, for when he stands the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him.
And so there sprang from one man, and that dead as to any prospects for offspring, a people as numberless as the stars in the sky and as the sands beside the seashore.
For just as the human body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, constitute but one body, so it is with Christ.
For the Spirit that God has given us does not impart timidity but power and love and self-control.
To some people who were confident that they themselves were upright, but who scorned everybody else, He told the following story:
For when we were still helpless, Christ at the proper time died for us ungodly men.
"For it is just like a man who was going on a long journey from his homeland, who called to him his slaves and turned his property over to them.
But the cowards, the unfaithful, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the practicers of magic, the worshipers of idols, and all liars will have their portion in the lake that keeps on burning with fire and brimstone. This is the second death."
for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.
Aram the father of Aminadab, Aminadab the father of Nahshon, Nahshon the father of Salmon,
Once as the crowd was pressing against Him to hear the message of God, He found Himself standing on the shore of Lake Gennesaret.
Do you believe in one God? Very well; the demons, too, believe that, and shudder.
Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
Is any one of you suffering ill-treatment? He should keep on praying. Is anyone in a happy mood? He should keep on singing praise to God.
Now there was but one heart and soul in the vast number of those who had become believers, and not one of them claimed that anything that he had was his own, but they shared everything that they had as common property.
Therefore, because He Himself lives always to intercede for them always, He is able to save completely any and all who come to God through Him.
So those who were present began to ask Him, "Lord, is this the time when you are going to set up the kingdom again for Israel?"
For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."
"Therefore, let all the descendants of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ."
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you disciples so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?
And the scribes and the Pharisees were closely watching Him to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath, in order to get a charge against Him.
If you remain in union with me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you please and you shall have it.
Whatever is born of the physical is physical, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spiritual.
Jesus answered, "The first one is, 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord,
Now through the unmerited favor God has shown me I would say to every one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself, in accordance with the degree of faith which God has apportioned to him.
Then He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you, that everything which is written about me in the law of Moses, in the prophets, and in the Psalms, had to be fulfilled."
But a man named Ananias, in partnership with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,
Now after He had risen, early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary of Magdala, out of whom He had driven seven demons.
You parents, too, must stop exasperating your children, but continue to bring them up with the sort of education and counsel the Lord approves.
After the sabbath, as the first day of the week was dawning, Mary of Magdala and the other Mary went to get a look at the tomb.
Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would have been fighting to keep me from being turned over to the Jews. But as a matter of fact, my kingdom does not come from such a source."
Stop acting from motives of selfish strife or petty ambition, but in humility practice treating one another as your superiors.
But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.
When the Sabbath had ended, Mary of Magdala, Mary, James's mother, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Him.
Many of you, my brothers, should avoid becoming teachers, because you know that we teachers are going to be judged with stricter judgment than other people.
For it is through union with Him that we live and move and exist, as some of your own poets have said, "'For we are His offspring too.'
for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."
As soon as Jesus took the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" Then He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.
For this is the way the pious women of olden times, who set their hope on God, used to adorn themselves.
And this is the message that we have heard from Him and now announce to you: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in Him.
For the sun comes up with its scorching heat and dries up the grass, and its flowers wither, and its beauty fades away; so will rich men fade away in their pursuits.
As all of you have received your spiritual talents, you must keep on using them in serving one another, as good trustees of God's many-sided favor.
On that very day, strange to say, two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,
First of all, then, I urge that entreaties, prayers, and thanksgiving be offered for all men,
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.
Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us -- for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree" --
For our appeal did not originate from a delusion or an impure motive; it was not made in fraud;
Since then the children mentioned share our mortal nature, He too took on Himself a full share of the same, in order that He by His death might put a stop to the power of him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
And the King will answer them, 'I solemnly say to you, every time you did a good deed to one of these most insignificant brothers of mine, you did a good deed to me.'
The younger men, however, got up, wrapped up his body, carried it out, and buried it.
but He said to me, "My spiritual strength is sufficient, for it is only by means of conscious weakness that perfect power is developed."
the people chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with His blood: spiritual blessing and peace to you in increasing abundance.
I warn everyone who hears the words of prophecy contained in this book that if anyone adds anything to it, God will add to him the plagues that are described in this book;
about His Son, who on the physical side became a descendant of David, and on the holy, spiritual side
Then one of the scribes, on hearing them arguing, came up, and since he saw that Jesus had answered them properly, he asked Him, "What sort of command is the first of all commands?"
which reached you, and since it is bearing fruit and growing among you, just as it is all over the world, from the day you first heard of God's favor and in reality came to know it,
The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.
knowledge with self-control, self-control with patient endurance, patient endurance with piety,
"So everyone who listens to my words and practices their teaching, will be like a prudent man who built his house on a rocky foundation.
We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
So He said to him, "I solemnly say to you, this very day you will be in paradise with me."
But this I tell you, brothers: Our physical bodies cannot take part in the kingdom of God; what is decaying will never take part in what is immortal.
but anybody may have right standing with God as a free gift of His undeserved favor, through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus.
For the account that I passed on to you I myself received from the Lord Himself, that 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, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."
Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to preach God's good news,
After this I looked, and there was a vast throng that no one could count from every nation, tribe, people, and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
"I most solemnly say to you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place is a thief and a robber.
Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage relations kept sacred. Persons who are sexually vicious and immoral God will punish.
This is a saying to be trusted: "Whoever aspires to the office of pastor desires an excellent work."
It was while Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, by passing through the inland districts, came to Ephesus. He found a few disciples there
"Also, whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, to attract the attention of people. I solemnly say to you, they already have their 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 you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.
So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
for it is in this way that to you will be generously granted a triumphant admittance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as work for the Lord and not for men,
because you know that you have not been ransomed with things that perish as silver or gold, from the futile way of living taught by your fathers,
Then I saw thrones and those who were seated on them, and permission was granted them to pass judgment, even those who had been beheaded for bearing testimony to Jesus and for preaching the word of God, who refused to worship the wild beast and his statue, and would not let his mark be stamped upon their foreheads and upon their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Keep on praying in the Spirit, with every kind of prayer and entreaty, at every opportunity, be ever on the alert with perfect devotion and entreaty for all God's people,
Your love must be true. You must always turn in horror from what is wrong, but keep on holding to what is right.
But these have been recorded, in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life, as bearers of His name.
You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that, if any of them do not believe the message, they may be won over without a word through the living of the wives,
And you, who pose as a judge of those who practice such sins and yet continue doing the same yourself, do you for once suppose that you are going to escape the judgment of God?
Then Peter came up to Him and asked, "Lord, how many times may my brother wrong me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven?"
and after he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. Now for a whole year their meeting with the church lasted, and they taught large numbers of people. It was at Antioch too that the disciples first came to be known as "Christians."
in accordance with the priests' customs, to go into the sanctuary of the Lord to burn the incense,
And yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down out of heaven.
For even before the twin sons were born, and though they had done nothing either good or bad, that God's purpose in accordance with His choice might continue to stand, conditioned not on men's actions but on God's calling them,
And as soon as Jesus was baptized, He at once went up out of the water, and look! the heavens opened, and John saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove upon Him,
So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.
While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf and blessed it; then He broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take this and eat it; this is my body."
After some days He came back to Capernaum, and it was reported that He was at home,
Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.
When Jesus reached the district of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"
Just then a man in the crowd said to Him, "Tell my brother to share with me our inheritance."
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Now a man was sick; it was Lazarus who lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
for you were buried with Him in baptism and raised to life with Him through your faith in the power of God who raised Him from the dead.
By reading this you will be able to understand my insight into the secret about the Christ --
We are proclaiming Him, warning everyone and teaching everyone with ample wisdom, in order to present to God everyone mature through union with Christ.
And not only that, but this too: let us continue exulting in our sufferings, for we know that suffering produces endurance,
For whoever obeys the whole law, except to slip in a single instance, is guilty of breaking it all.
Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him."
If your hand makes you do wrong, cut it off. You might better go into life maimed than keep both your hands and go down to the pit, to the fire that is never put out.
My brothers, stop trying to maintain your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious presence of God on earth, along with acts of partiality to certain ones.
and the rich brother rejoice in his being on a level with the poor, because the rich will fade away like the flower of the grass.
Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised in accordance with the custom that Moses handed down, you cannot be saved."
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelievers, to keep the glorious light of the good news of Christ, who is the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.
You must stop offending the Holy Spirit of God by whom you have been stamped for the day of redemption.
And now, why are you waiting? Get up and be baptized and wash your sins away by calling on His name.'
Stop being afraid, my little flock, for your Father has gladly chosen to give you the kingdom.
As He was again starting on a journey, a man ran up to Him, and knelt to Him, and was asking Him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to get eternal life?"
So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.
He came into the world, and though the world through Him began to exist, it did not recognize Him.
But how can people call upon One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in One about whom they have not heard? And how can people hear without someone to preach to them?
Now all the tax-collectors and notorious sinners were crowding around Him to listen to Him.
Indeed, it was to this kind of living that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow His footsteps.
And all of us, with faces uncovered, because we continue to reflect like mirrors the splendor of the Lord, are being transformed into likeness to Him, from one degree of splendor to another, since it comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
So then I tell you, whenever you pray and ask for anything, have faith that it has been granted you, and you will get it.
always entreating God that somehow by His will I may some day at last succeed in getting to see you.
Then He called the people to Him along with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say, 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.
There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is but one hope resulting from the call you have received;
Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all God's people in union with Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and assistants:
But, on the other hand, we shall go on holding to the truth and in love growing up into perfect union with Him, that is, Christ Himself who is the Head.
"Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
The God who made the world and all that it contains, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by human hands,
Yet you have in Sardis a few who have not soiled their clothes. They will walk with me in white, for they deserve to do so.
which He lavished upon us. Through perfect wisdom and spiritual insight
I have written this to you who believe in the person of the Son of God, so that you may know that you already have eternal life.
You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.
'We are wiping off against you the very dust from your town that has stuck to our feet. But understand this, the kingdom of God is close by.'
So, as a joint-elder with them, a witness of the suffering borne by Christ, and a sharer of the glory that is to be uncovered, I beg the elders among you,
And this testimony is that God has given us eternal life, and this life is given through union with His Son.
and He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no death any longer, no sorrow, no crying, no pain. The first order of things has passed away."
This girl kept following Paul and the rest of us, shrieking, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, and they are proclaiming to you a way of salvation."
Then I saw another angel flying in mid-air, with eternal good news to tell to the inhabitants of the earth, to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
You must never be afraid of those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. But rather you must keep on fearing Him who can destroy both soul and body in the pit.
The eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them,
This is why, ever since I heard of it, I have never ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full wisdom and spiritual insight, with a clear knowledge of His will,
After He had suffered, He had shown Himself alive to them, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them through a period of forty days, and telling them the things about the kingdom of God.
Stop letting anyone pass judgment on you in matters of eating and drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly feasts or sabbaths.
For in the good news God's Way of man's right standing with Him is uncovered, the Way of faith that leads to greater faith, just as the Scripture says, "The upright man must live by faith."
See! He is coming on the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even the men who pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth will lament over Him. Even so. Amen.
constantly praising God and always having the favor of all the people. And every day the Lord continued to add to them the people who were being saved.
For you do not have a sense of servitude to fill you with dread again, but the consciousness of adopted sons by which we cry, "Abba," that is, "Father."
Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
in union with whom we were made God's portion, since we had been foreordained in accordance with the purpose of Him who in everything carries out the plan of His will,
For when one says, "I belong to Paul's party," and another, "I belong to Apollos' party," are you not acting as mere human creatures?
Then the devil who led them astray was hurled into the fiery lake of burning brimstone, where the wild beast and false prophet were, and there they are to be tortured day and night forever and ever.
Let us stop getting tired of doing good, for at the proper time we shall reap if we do not give up.
I am baptizing you in water to picture your repentance. But He that is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not fit to carry His shoes. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire;
because you have been born anew, not from a germ that perishes but from one that does not perish, by the word of the living and everlasting God.
Now Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His work; He was the son, as was supposed, of Joseph, the son of Eli,
Then he answered, "You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind, and your neighbor as you do yourself."
And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask for anything that is in accordance with His will, He will listen to us.
in other words, that we may be mutually encouraged, while I am with you, by one another's faith, yours and mine.
Undoubtedly the mystery of our religion is a great wonder: "He was made visible in human form; He was vindicated by the Spirit; He was seen by angels; He was proclaimed among the heathen; He was trusted in throughout the world; He was taken up to glory."
Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?
Continue to be an example in wholesome instructions which you learned from me, in the faith and love that come through union with Christ Jesus.
This is why God has highly exalted Him, and given Him the name that is above every other name,
You must stop letting any bad word pass your lips, but only words that are good for building up as the occasion demands, so that they will result in spiritual blessing to the hearers.
But about that day or hour not a single one knows -- not even the angels in heaven or the Son; not a single one but the Father alone.
And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. But you, on your part, must stay right here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."
Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to me so, for I have not yet gone up to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."
When Jesus had said all these things, He lifted His eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that He may glorify you,
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.
Just at that time some people came up to tell Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with that of their sacrifices.
And whatever you say or do, let it all be done with reference to the Lord Jesus, and through Him continue to give thanks to God the Father.
"You have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You must not murder,' and 'Whoever murders will have to answer to the court.'
And all the believers lived together and held all they had as common goods to be shared by one another.
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Get your hands clean, you sinners. Get your hearts purified, you double-minded.
but instead, you must continue to grow in the spiritual strength and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be glory now and forever!
Little children, it is the last hour, just as you have heard that Antichrist is Coming, and already many Antichrists have appeared; so we may be sure that 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 notice --
In everything I showed you that by working hard like this we must help those who are weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It makes one happier to give than to get.'"
And anyone who listens to my words and does not practice their teaching, will be like an imprudent man who built his house on sand.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father and the all-comforting God,
I have not come to set them aside but to fill them up to the brim. For I solemnly say to you, heaven and earth would sooner pass away than the dotting of an 'i' or the crossing of a 't' from the law, until it all becomes in force.
and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem
The day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that day the heavens will pass away with a roar, the heavenly bodies will be destroyed by being burned up, and the earth with all its works will melt away.
So remember that you were once heathen in a physical sense, called the uncircumcised by those who call themselves the circumcised -- though only in a physical sense, by human hands.
So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.
as you learned it from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow-slave. As a faithful minister of Christ for me
After this Jesus again showed Himself to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias, and this is the way He showed Himself.
and in these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people, blind, crippled, paralyzed.
I solemnly charge you, before God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom,
James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends greetings to the twelve tribes that are scattered over the world.
The spiritual blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the common sharing of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
So we have the message of the prophets more certainly guaranteed. Please pay attention to this message as to a lamp that is shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts;
You must put on God's full armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.
It was on account of this that the Jews tried all the harder to put Him to death, because He not only persisted in breaking the Sabbath, but also kept on saying that God was His Father, and so was making Himself equal to God.
But even if I or an angel from heaven preach a good news that is contrary to the one which I have already preached to you, a curse upon him!
For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,
And they held that caution fast in their minds, as they continued to discuss among themselves what rising from the dead meant.
Since then, my brothers, we have free access to the real sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,
even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you.
In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was governor of Galilee, and his brother Philip was governor of the territory of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was governor of Abilene,
Now there were some shepherds in the same neighborhood, living in the open fields and keeping watch over their flock by night.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied.
Indeed, my witness is God, whom I serve in my spirit by telling the good news about His Son, that I never fail to mention you every time I pray,
for the immediate equipment of God's people for the work of service, for the ultimate building up of the body of Christ,
Yes, as for myself, it was in weakness and fear and great trembling that I came to you,
For if you have these qualities and they continue to increase in you, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive in attaining a full knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So let us continue coming with courage to the throne of God's unmerited favor to obtain His mercy and to find His spiritual strength to help us when we need it.
It is through these that He has given us His precious and glorious promises, so that through them, after you have escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires, you may come to share in the divine nature.
Let no one think little of you because you are young, but always set an example for believers, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.
For we must all appear before the judgment-bar of Christ, that each may get his pay for what he has done, whether it be good or bad.
Then Peter stood with the Eleven around him, and raising his voice he addressed them, "Men of Judea and all you residents of Jerusalem, let me explain this to you, and give close attention to my words.
But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.
Stop owing anybody anything, except the obligation to love one another, for whoever practices loving others has perfectly satisfied the law.
and a man who continues to cling to the trustworthy message as he was taught it, so that he may be competent to encourage others with wholesome teaching and to convict those who oppose him.
"for John baptized people in water, but in a few days you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit."
But they did not even try to compel my companion, Titus, although he was a Greek, to be circumcised --
Practice bearing one another's burdens, and in this way carry out the law of Christ.
Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.
Are you not conscious that you are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God has His permanent home in you?
Then He fixed His eyes upon His disciples, and began to speak. "Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours!
For by one Spirit all of us, Jews or Greeks, slaves or freemen, have been baptized into one body, and were all imbued with one Spirit.
With one mind they were all continuing to devote themselves to prayer, with the women and Mary and His brothers.
Whoever practices sin belongs to the devil, because the devil has practiced sin from the beginning. This is why the Son of God appeared, to undo the devil's works.
and always be speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Keep on praying and praising the Lord with all your heart;
because we know that a man does not come into right standing with God by doing what the law commands, but by simple trust in Christ, we too have trusted in Christ Jesus, in order to come into right standing with God by simple trust in Christ and not by doing what the law commands, because by doing what the law commands no man can come into right standing with God.
But, as the Scripture says, they are: "Things which eye has never seen and ear has never heard, and never have occurred to human hearts, which God prepared for those who love Him."
this very Jesus, I say, after He was betrayed, in accordance with the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you had wicked men kill by nailing Him to a cross;
How fathomless the depths of God's resources, wisdom, and knowledge! How unsearchable His decisions, and how mysterious His methods!
And a man came up to Him and asked, "What is there good that I can do to possess eternal life?"
But now I count as nothing the sacrifice of my life, if only I can finish my race and render the service entrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of faithfully telling the good news of God's favor.
And if I go and make it ready for you, I will come back and take you to be face to face with me, so that you may always be right where I am.
and from Jesus Christ the trustworthy witness, the First-born of the dead, and the Sovereign of the kings of the earth. To Him who ever loves us and once for all released us from our sins by His blood,
But if their stumbling has resulted in the enrichment of the world, and their overthrow becomes the enrichment of heathen peoples, how much richer the result will be when the full quota of Jews comes in!
Jesus said to him, "If there is anything I can do! Everything is possible for him who has faith!"
preach the message, stay at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people with perfect patience as a teacher.
Because no human creature can be brought into right standing with God by observing the law. For all the law can do is to make men conscious of sin.
Once as we were on our way to the place of prayer, a slave girl met us who had the gift of magical fortune-telling, and continued to make great profits for her owners by fortune-telling.
Let me tell you a secret. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed,
Therefore, everyone who will own me before men I will own before my Father in heaven,
Yes, I long to come to know Him; that is, the power of His resurrection and so to share with Him his sufferings as to be continuously transformed by His death,
While Peter was still speaking these truths, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the message.
Day after day they regularly attended the temple; they practiced breaking their bread together in their homes, and eating their food with glad and simple hearts,
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
May God Himself, who gave you peace, consecrate your whole being. May you be safely kept, spirit, soul, and body, so as to be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes back.
"To the messenger of the church in Laodicea write: 'The Amen, the true and faithful witness, the origin of God's creation, speaks as follows:
To unmarried people and to widows I would say this: It would be a fine thing for them to remain single, as I am.
and hope never disappoints us; for through the Holy Spirit that has been given us, God's love has flooded our hearts.
because, although they once knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give Him thanks, but became silly in their senseless speculations, and so their insensible hearts have been shrouded in darkness.
But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.
"It is fire that I have come to bring upon the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
About three Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God! My God! why have you forsaken me?"
There is no fear in love, and perfect love drives out fear, because fear pertains to punishment, and no one who is subject to fear has attained perfection in love.
Then He said to them, "The Sabbath was made to serve man and not man to keep the Sabbath.
In the days when Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest whose name was Zechariah, who belonged to the division of Abijah. His wife was also a descendant of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
In fact, under the law, almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood no forgiveness is granted.
so that, if I am detained, you may know how people ought to conduct themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
Furthermore, I want you to know, brothers, that I have often planned to come to see you (though until now I have been prevented), in order that I may gather some fruit among you too, as I have among the rest of the heathen.
As they continued down the road, they came to some water, and the official said, "Look! here is some water! What is there to keep me from being baptized?"
Therefore, as a means of spiritual preparation, tighten up the belt about your minds, keep perfectly calm, keep your hope on the spiritual blessing to be conferred upon you at the unveiling of Jesus Christ.
An unspiritual man does not accept the things that the Spirit of God teaches, for they are nonsense to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are appreciated by spiritual insight.
Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the Babylonian Exile.
"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint and dill and cummin, and yet leave out the more vital matters of the law, justice, love and fidelity. These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have left out the former.
First, through Jesus Christ I thank my God for you all, because the report of your faith is spreading all over the world.
for it is God Himself who is at work in you to help you desire it as well as do it.
You are showing patient endurance, and you have borne it for my sake, and have not grown weary.
but they will have to give account for it to Him who is ready to judge living and dead.
For God once publicly offered Him in His death as a sacrifice of reconciliation through faith, to demonstrate His own justice (for in His forbearance God had passed over men's former sins);
But when the goodness and lovingkindness of God our Saviour were brought to light,
He frankly admitted, and did not try at all to deny it; yes, he frankly admitted, "I am not the Christ."
For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing, and He will show Him greater deeds than these, so that you will keep on wondering.
So, just as you once accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue living in vital union with Him,
For all of you who have been baptized into union with Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Meanwhile Jesus grew constantly in wisdom and in body, and in favor with God and man.
The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." Let everyone who hears this say, "Come." Let everyone who is thirsty come. Let everyone who wishes come and take the living water without any cost.
Now six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom He had raised from the dead.
strengthening the hearts of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, and warning them that it is through enduring many hardships that we must get into the kingdom of God.
And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on earth despair of nations in bewilderment at the roaring of the sea and its waves,
Then He said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things out of here! Stop using my Father's house as a market place!"
"For if you forgive others their shortcomings your heavenly Father will forgive you, too.
circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee;
Look at ships, too; though great and driven by violent winds, they are steered with a tiny rudder wherever the pilot pleases.
to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'
Then Jesus in the power of the Spirit returned to Galilee, and news of Him spread all over the surrounding country.
If men to whom God's message came are called gods -- and the Scriptures cannot be made null and void --
Look at my hands and my feet, for it is I, myself. Feel of me and see for yourselves, for a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."
So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,
And anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do for you, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son.
Peter and John were on their way up to the temple at the three o'clock hour of prayer,
"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come, the Almighty.
That same day when it was evening, He said to them, "Let us go over to the other Side."
who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.
You have heard me say that I am going away and coming back to you; if you really loved me, you would rejoice over my telling you that I am going to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.
The things you learned from me before many witnesses you must commit to trustworthy men who will be competent to teach others too.
You are children of God, dear children, and you have conquered these men, because He who is in our hearts is greater than he who is in the world.
Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels going to war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought,
So God has given them up to sexual impurity, in the evil trend of their heart's desires, so that they degrade their own bodies with one another,
For I am happy to have some brothers come and testify to the truth that is in you, since you are living by the truth.
Then they sang a new song: "You deserve to take the book and break its seals, because you have been slaughtered, and with your blood have bought men from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation,
Then the King will say to those at His right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.
By this we can be sure that we know Him -- if we practice obedience to His commands.
for your cooperation in spreading the good news, from the first day you heard it until now.
"You are worthy, our Lord and God, to have ascribed to you the glory, honor, and power; for you created everything, And since you willed it so, they came into existence and were created."
I am the door myself. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
Then Nicodemus answered by asking, "How can this be?"
I tell you, on that day the punishment will be lighter for Sodom than for that town.
But about that day or hour not a single one knows -- not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son; not a single one but the Father.
Constantly remind people to submit to and obey the rulers who have authority over them, so as to be ready for any good enterprise,
Now at Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a colonel in what was known as the Italian regiment,
Then they began to discuss among themselves which one it was who was going to do this.
but in these latter days He has spoken to us through a Son, whom He had appointed lawful owner of everything, and through whom He had made the worlds.
Now when all the people had been baptized, and when Jesus had been baptized and was still praying, heaven opened
And then He said to them, "Be ever on the alert and always on your guard against every form of greed, because a man's life does not consist in his possessions, even though they are abundant."
Then these will go away to everlasting punishment, but the upright to everlasting life."
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His forefather David,
but we do see Jesus, who was made inferior to the angels for a little while, crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by God's favor He might experience death for every human being.
As we have gifts that differ in accordance with the favor God has shown us, if it is that of preaching, let it be done in proportion to our faith;
After this, Jesus and His disciples went into Judea, and for some time He stayed there with them and kept baptizing people.
Now I beg you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to be harmonious in what you say and not to have factions among you, but to be perfectly harmonious in your minds and judgments.
Now as the time was coming to a head when He should be taken up to heaven, He firmly set His face to continue His journey to Jerusalem;
So I mean this and now testify to it in the name of the Lord: You must now stop living as the heathen usually do, in the frivolity of their minds,
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child.
May the hope-inspiring God so fill you with perfect joy and peace through your continuing faith, that you may bubble over with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
"See! I am coming soon, and my rewards are with me, to repay each one just as his work has been.
And people were bringing little children to Him for Him to touch them, but the disciples reproved them for it.
Now about eight days after Jesus said this, He took Peter, John, and James, and went up on the mountain to pray.
Make it your practice to receive into full Christian fellowship people who are overscrupulous, but not to criticize their views.
This world is now in process of judgment; the prince of this world is now to be expelled.
"And immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not shed its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the sky will be shaken.
You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.
For it is impossible for those who have once for all been enlightened and have experienced the gift from heaven, who have been made sharers of the Holy Spirit
It is not a fact that I have already secured it or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, the ideal for which I was captured by Christ Jesus.
They helped them select elders in each church, and after praying and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
So be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer keeps on waiting and waiting for the precious crop from his land; how he keeps up his patience over it until he gets the early and late rains,
By faith we understand that the worlds were created, beautifully coordinated, and now exist, at God's command; so the things that we see did not develop out of mere matter.
And He at once had the disciples get into the boat and cross to the other side ahead of Him, while He dismissed the crowds.
because what can be known of God is clear to their inner moral sense; for in this way God Himself has shown it to them.
They asked him, "Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking'?"
Now He was saying to the disciples: "Once there was a rich man who had a household manager, and he was accused to his master of squandering the latter's property.
because you will receive the goal of your faith, the ultimate salvation of your souls.
I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will listen to my voice, and all my sheep will become one flock with one shepherd.
Baptism, which corresponds to this figure, now saves you, too -- I do not mean the mere removal of physical stains, but the craving for a clear conscience toward God -- through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
since He has set a day on which He will justly judge the world through a man whom He has appointed. He has made this credible to all by raising Him from the dead."
Now in accordance with the custom of purification practiced by the Jews, six stone water jars were standing there, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
In this way is seen the true love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Whoever continues to believe in me will have, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water continuously flowing from within him."
For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.
take the helmet salvation provides, and take the sword the Spirit wields, which is the word of God.
Is He not really speaking on our behalf? Yes, indeed, this law was written on our behalf, because the plowman ought to plow and the thresher ought to thresh, in the hope of sharing in the crop.
For to keep you from being self-conceited, brothers, I do not want to have a misunderstanding of this uncovered secret, that only temporary insensibility has come upon Israel until the full quota of the heathen peoples comes in,
If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was hurled into the fiery lake.
Now, when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them, "The kingdom of God is not coming with visible display,
He answered them, "It is not your business to learn times and dates which the Father has a right to fix,
So after He had risen from the dead, His disciples recalled that He had said this, and so believed the Scripture and the statement that He had made.
But when the people came to believe the good news proclaimed by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were constantly baptized.
So I have told you that you would die under the curse of your sins, for unless you believe that I am the Christ, you will die under the curse of your sins."
Saul heartily approved of his being put to death. So on that day a severe persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all of them, except the apostles, were scattered over Judea and Samaria.
For the Father passes sentence on no one, but He has committed all judgment to the Son,
For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?
Then He began with Moses and went through all the prophets and explained to them all the passages in the Scriptures about Himself.
And now I am no longer to be in the world, but they are to stay on in the world, while I am going to be with you. Holy Father, keep them by the power which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.
Yet I think it right, as long as I live in this bodily tent, to arouse you by a reminder,
but constantly and earnestly I urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn with repentance to God and to have faith in our Lord Jesus.
for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.
Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Him."
For if we go willfully sinning after we have received full knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins,
But you must avoid forgetting this one fact, dearly beloved, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a single day.
At that time Jesus said, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for concealing these matters from wise and learned men, and for revealing them to little children.
Then the Jews retorted, "It took forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and you are going to raise it in three days!"
Jesus said to her, "Woman, what have you to do with me? My time to act has not yet come."
Yes, you must practice dealing with others as you would like them to deal with you.
But there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is over them all, because He is infinitely kind to all who call upon Him.
for you are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself the cornerstone.
And now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of His favor, which is able to build you up and to give you your proper possession among all God's consecrated people.
For what benefit will it be to a man to gain the whole world and fail to gain the higher life?
for false Christs and false prophets will announce themselves, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead, if possible, God's chosen people.
Yes, although you were dead through your shortcomings and were physically uncircumcised, God made you live again through fellowship with Christ. He graciously forgave us all our shortcomings,
This is the very thing I wrote you, that when I did come I might not be made sad by the very people who ought to make me glad, for I had confidence in you all that my gladness would be gladness to you all.
For by experience you know the unmerited favor shown by our Lord Jesus Christ; that although He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, in order that by His poverty you might become rich.
Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus, to God's people who are faithful in Christ Jesus;
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, for the work to which I have called them."
Brothers, I do not think that I have captured it yet, but here is my one aspiration, so forgetting what is behind me and reaching out for what is ahead of me,
and like new-born babies thirst for pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to final salvation,
Not that I refer to any personal want, for I have learned to be contented in whatever circumstances I am.
A revelation given by Jesus Christ which God gave to Him, to make known to His slaves what must very soon take place. He sent and communicated it through His angel to His slave John,
Do not let anybody at all deceive you about this, because that cannot take place until the great revolt occurs and the representative of lawlessness is uncovered, the one who is doomed to destruction,
Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.
So they kept saying, "What does He mean by saying, 'a little while'? We do not know what He is talking about."
Because there are three that testify to it, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three agree.
Asa the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, Joram the father of Uzziah,
Then Jesus and His disciples left Galilee and went to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way there He was asking His disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"
And yet in all these things we keep on gloriously conquering through Him who loved us.
So if we have already been brought into right standing with God by Christ's death, it is much more certain that by Him we shall be saved from God's wrath.
Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in you.
So Paul stood up in the center of the auditorium and said: "Men of Athens, at every turn I make I see that you are very religious.
Keep on coming to Him, as to a living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious in His sight,
He told them another story, as follows: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed seed in his field.
and if any woman divorces her husband to marry another man, she commits adultery."
His parents were in the habit of going to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.
For just as we have many parts united in our physical bodies, and the parts do not all have the same function,
He answered them, "Because you have so little faith! For I solemnly say to you, if you have the faith that is living like a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move over from here to yonder,' and it will move over, and nothing will be impossible for you to do."
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman so as to have an evil desire for her at once has already committed adultery with her in his heart,
I write you in perfect confidence in your compliance with my wish, because I am sure that you will do even more than I ask.
(if a man does not know how to manage his own house, how can he take care of a church of God?).
I am now glad to be suffering for you, and in my own person I am filling in what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for His body, that is, the church.
for every child of God continues to conquer the world. Our faith is the victory that has conquered the world.
So if you, in spite of your being bad, know how to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who continue to ask Him?"
in which you once lived in accordance with the spirit of this present world, and the mighty prince of the air, who is always at work in the disobedient, among whom all of us, we Jews as well as you heathen,
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba," that is, "Father."
and keep on building yourselves up, as living stones, into a spiritual house for a consecrated priesthood, to offer up, through Jesus Christ, spiritual sacrifices that will be acceptable to God.
For just as woman originated from man, so man is born of woman, and both, with everything else, originated from God.
And He answered, "Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them male and female,
But I say to you: "Everyone who harbors malice against his brother, will have to answer to the court, and whoever speaks contemptuously to his brother, will have to answer to the supreme court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You cursed fool? will have to pay the penalty in the pit of torture.
and if children, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too.
He who always supplies the sower with seed and the eater with bread will supply you with seed and multiply it and enlarge the harvest which your deeds of charity yield.
I most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single grain. But if it does die, it yields a great harvest.
As He was going on to Jerusalem, He chanced to pass through Samaria and Galilee.
Then He called the Twelve together and gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure diseases,
just as the Son of Man has come, not to be served but to serve, and to give His life a ransom price to set many free."
But Jesus said, "Let the little children alone, and stop preventing them from coming to me, for to such as these the kingdom of heaven belongs."
Therefore, you have no excuse, whoever you are, who pose as a judge of others, for when you pass judgment on another, you condemn yourself, for you who pose as a judge are practicing the very same sins yourself.
Now there are many other wonder-works which Jesus performed in the disciples' presence which are not recorded in this book.
This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.
If you do get angry, you must stop sinning in your anger. Do not ever let the sun go down on your anger;
how much more surely will the blood of Christ, who with an eternal Spirit gave Himself a spotless offering to God, purify your consciences from works that mean mere death, to serve the ever living God?
for we know that our former self was crucified with Him, to make our body that is liable to sin inactive, so that we might not a moment longer continue to be slaves to sin.
In those days John the Baptist appeared, and kept preaching in the desert of Judea,
Now this is the way it is: Whoever sows sparingly will reap sparingly too, but whoever sows bountifully will reap bountifully too.
I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.
So you must lay aside falsehood and each of you practice telling the truth to his neighbor, for we are parts of one another.
Is He not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not His sisters live here among us?" And so they found a cause for stumbling over him.
You must persevere in prayer and by this means stay wide awake when you give thanks.
Do you think so little of the riches of God's kindness, forbearance, and patience, not conscious that His kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
You married women must continue to live in subordination to your husbands, for this is your Christian duty.
Even while they were talking about these things, He took His stand among them Himself, [and said to them, "Peace to you!"]
So I tell you, keep on asking, and the gift will be given you; keep on seeking, and you will find; keep on knocking, and the door will open to you.
Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and loud voices were heard in heaven, saying, "The sovereignty of the world has come into the possession of our Lord and His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever."
I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.
Then Jesus uttered a loud cry, and said, "Father, I now commit my spirit to your care." As He said this He breathed His last.
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet, not my will but always yours be done!"
to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;
For God is my witness how I never stop yearning for all of you with the affection Christ Jesus inspires.
I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh."
Every ravine must be filled up, and every mountain and hill leveled down; the crooked places must become straight roads, and the rough roads must be made smooth,
If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead has His home within you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through His Spirit that has His home within you.
men that are abounding in the fruits of right-doing with the help of Jesus Christ, to the honor and praise of God.
But in accordance with the measure of Christ's gift, His favor has been bestowed upon each one of us.
Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho, with His disciples and a great crowd, Timeus' son, Bartimeus, a blind beggar, was sitting on the roadside.
Everybody, high and low, kept running after him, saying, "He is certainly what is known as the Great Power of God!"
When He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered for being faithful to God's message and for the testimony they bore to it.
for today, in the town of David, a Saviour for you has been born, who is to be your Messiah and Lord.
But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief.
But the crowds learned of it, and followed Him; and He welcomed them and began to speak to them about the kingdom of God and to cure the people who needed to be cured.
Then they crossed Phrygia and Galatia. But because they were prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia,
Soon afterwards He chanced to be making a tour of Galilee from town to town and from village to village preaching and telling the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve went with Him,
But regarding the Son He says: "Your throne, O God, will stand forever and ever; a righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.
Stop taking revenge on one another, beloved, but leave a place for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord."
O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One?
But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured her on the Sabbath, answered the crowd, "There are six days on which people must work; so come on these and be cured, but not on the Sabbath."
Each must give what he has purposed in his heart to give, not sorrowfully or under compulsion, for it is the happy giver that God loves.
and said to them, "The Scriptures said that the Christ should suffer as He has suffered, should rise from the dead on the third day,
John to the seven churches in Asia: spiritual blessing and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven spirits that are before His throne,
Then he will show you a large upstairs room, furnished and ready; get everything ready for us there."
When they reached the city, they went to the room upstairs where they had been staying; they were: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.
Then a certain member of the council asked Him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to get possession of eternal life?"
Stop having anything to do with the profitless doings of darkness; instead you must continue to expose them.
You married men, in the same way, must live with your wives in an intelligent consideration of them; you must show them deference, too, as the weaker sex, as they share with you the gracious gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am made of flesh that is frail, sold into slavery to sin.
I want the women, on their part, to dress becomingly, that is, modestly and sensibly, not adorning themselves with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive dresses,
Then I stood on the sand of the seashore, and I saw a wild beast coming up out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on his horns, and blasphemous titles on his heads.
Among them was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple goods from the town of Thyatira, and she stayed to listen to us. She was already a worshiper of God, and the Lord so moved upon her heart that she accepted the message spoken by Paul.
Listen! I have given you power to tread on snakes and scorpions, and to trample on all the power of the enemy, and nothing at all will ever harm you.
Then stop criticizing others, and you will never be criticized; stop condemning others, and you will never be condemned.
because I know that the removal of my bodily tent is to be very soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.
Then He asked them, "Is it right to do people good on the Sabbath, or to do them evil, to save life or to take it?" But they had nothing to say.
for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done.
Soon afterwards He chanced to go to a town called Nain, and His disciples and a great throng of people were going along with Him.
Now we know that everything the law says is spoken to those who are under its authority, that every mouth may be stopped and the whole world be held responsible to God.
And at three o'clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God! my God! why have you forsaken me?"
Now it was in those days that He went up on the mountain to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer to God.
You were running beautifully! Who was it that cut into your way and kept you from obeying the truth?
This is the way God's love for us has been shown, namely, God has sent His only Son into the world that we through Him might have life.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but hurled them down to Tartarus and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,
"Again, I tell you, if only two of you on earth agree on what they pray for, they will get it from my Father in heaven.
But He knew what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and stand at the front." So he got up and stood there.
Six days after this, Jesus took Peter, James, and John with Him, and led them up on a high mountain, alone by themselves. And in their presence His appearance was changed,
This is why we must pay much closer attention to the message once heard, to keep from drifting to one side.
But anyone is tempted to do evil when he is allured by his own evil desire and enticed by a bait.
Now for this very reason you must do your level best to supplement your faith with moral character, moral character with knowledge,
for there will be greater misery at that time than ever has been since the world began, or ever will be again.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the foreign-born Jews who are scattered over Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah,
What is our conclusion then? Is it that we Jews are better than they? Not at all! For we have already charged that Jews and Greeks alike are all under the sway of sin,
Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show by his noble living that his good deeds are done in humility, which wisdom prompts.
to whom God has chosen to make known how glorious are the riches of this open secret among the heathen, namely, Christ in you the hope of your glorification.
Many of the Jews read this placard, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
Then He said to the man, "Hold out your hand." And he held it out, and it was cured so that it became like the other.
The heathen kept on listening and rejoicing and giving the glory to God's message, and all who had been destined to eternal life believed,
Then Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is far advanced in years."
I repeat, it is what we have seen and heard that we now announce to you, so that you too may share this fellowship with us, for this fellowship that we have is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ;
But what does it say? "God's message is close to you, on your very lips and in your heart"; that is, the message about faith which we preach.
For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some men in reaching after riches have wandered from the faith and pierced their hearts with many a pang.
This has all originated with God, for He through Christ has reconciled me to Himself and has given me the ministry of reconciliation.
To this very One all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in Him is to receive the forgiveness of sins through His name."
Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.
Six days after this, Jesus took Peter and James and his brother John, and led them up on a high mountain, by themselves.
Jesus answered: "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat him till he was half dead, and then went off and left him.
At that time Peter got up among the brothers (there were about a hundred and twenty present) and said,
While He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to Him by themselves, and said, "Tell us when this is to take place, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age."
In brotherly love be affectionate to one another, in personal honors put one another to the fore,
"Listen! I am sending you out as sheep surrounded by wolves. So you must be sensible like serpents and guileless like doves.
For I, too, am under authority of others, and have soldiers under me, and I order this one to go, and he goes, another to come, and he comes, my slave-boy to do this, and he does it."
In accordance with His will He made us His children by the message of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.
For when I was hungry, you gave me something to eat, when I was thirsty you gave me something to drink, when I was a stranger you welcomed me to your homes,
It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.
for this is my blood which ratifies the covenant, the blood which is to be poured out for many for the forgiveness of their sins.
So now, Father, glorify me up there in your presence just as you did before the world existed.
each elder must be above reproach, have only one wife, and his children must not be liable to the charge of profligacy or disobedience.
"There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what are they among so many?"
But the angel said to them: "Stop being afraid, for now I bring you good tidings of great joy which is to be for all the people;
Because I know that after I have gone violent wolves will break in among you and will not spare the flock.
Do not be so afraid of what you are to suffer. See! The devil is going to throw some of you into prison to be tested there and for ten days to suffer pressing troubles. Each one of you must prove to be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.
Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
Dearly beloved, I beg you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the evil desires of your lower nature, because they are always at war with the soul.
But whenever you, follower of mine, pray, you must go to your most private place, shut the door, and pray to your Father in secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
While they were eating, He took a loaf and blessed it and broke it in pieces and gave it to them, saying, "Take this; it is my body."
Yes, indeed, I certainly do count everything as loss compared with the priceless privilege of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have lost everything, and value it all as mere refuse, in order to gain Christ
Then He instructed them for the first time that the Son of Man had to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders and the high priests and the scribes, and be killed but rise again after three days.
After this Jesus went home to Capernaum, with His mother and brothers and disciples, and stayed there for a few days.
Now in those days Mary got up and hurried off to the hill country, to a town in Judah,
So the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was caught up into heaven and took His seat at God's right hand.
God's own way of giving men right standing with Himself is through faith in Jesus Christ. It is for everybody who has faith, for no distinction at all is made.
So they took him and brought him to the city auditorium and said, "May we know what this new teaching of yours is?
They will fall by the edge of the sword and will be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled under the feet of the heathen, until the times of the heathen come to full measure.
But Jesus looked at them and said, "This is impossible for men, but anything is possible for God."
Near Jesus' cross were standing His mother and her sister Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.
So I never give up; instead, although my outer nature is wasting away, my inner nature is constantly renewed from day to day.
Now the Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred to its depths to see the city completely steeped in idolatry.
And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the nations of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky in overwhelming power and splendor.
You slaves must practice obedience to your earthly masters, with reverence and awe, with sincerity of heart, as you would obey Christ,
So He said to them, "Whenever you pray, say: 'Father, Your name be revered; Your kingdom come;
So you owe it all to Him through union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom, our means of right standing, our consecration, and our redemption,
Some fell upon rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep;
The beggar looked at them, supposing that he was going to get something from them.