Reference: New Testament Synonyms
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A short list of Synonyms is added, embracing some Greek and English words which could not well be considered in the Dictionary. It is important that those who believe in the verbal inspiration of scripture should study the words used by the Holy Spirit as far as they have the means.
The few Synonyms here given may be regarded as samples, and may lead the reader into a new and interesting field of study, which if followed out would embrace the careful consideration of hundreds of other words. Such a study will not merely tend to the acquisition of a more correct knowledge of the letter of the divine oracles, but it will form the mind in the thoughts of the God who deigns to use human language to convey to our souls what the Holy Spirit Himself calls "the deep things of God." 1Co 2:10. One who carefully studies such subjects in a proper spirit will be ever learning more of the mind of God as expressed in the scriptures.
Some words not considered here will be found briefly treated in the Dictionary under 'Author, Begotten, Children, Eternal, Godhead, Godliness, Hell, Knowledge, Lord, Man, Natural, New, Ordain, Power, Redemption, Servant, Sin, Washing, etc.'
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But her husband, Joseph, because he was an upright man and did not want to disgrace her, decided to break the engagement by secretly divorcing her.
But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone can man live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
and said to Him, "Every bit of this I will give to you, if you will fall on your knees and worship me." Then Jesus said to him, "Be gone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must worship the Lord your God, and serve Him alone.'"
"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.'
"You have heard it was said, 'You must not commit adultery.'
"Again, you have heard that it was said to the men of old, 'You must not swear falsely, but you must perform your oaths as a religious duty.'
and after the demon had been driven out, the dumb man could talk. So the crowds were dumbfounded, saying, "Never before among the Jews was anything like this?
Anybody who loves father or mother more than he loves me is not worthy of me,
All things have been entrusted to me by my Father, and no one but the Father perfectly knows the Son, and no one but the Son perfectly knows the Father, and the one to whom the Son chooses to make Him known. Come to me, all of you who toil and carry burdens, and I, yes, I, will lead you into rest. read more. Put on my yoke, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,
"Whenever the foul spirit goes out of a man, it wanders about in deserts in search of rest, but cannot find it.
When anyone hears the message of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one comes and carries off the seed that was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.
But I say to you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but treated him as they pleased. Just so the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands."
So the slave fell down at his feet and pleaded, 'Give me time, and I will pay you every cent of it.'
And He answered him, "'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind.'
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.
A few minutes afterward the bystanders came up to Peter and said, "You are surely one of them, too, for your accent gives you away."
Then Peter remembered Jesus' words, "Before a cock crows, you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.
John the Baptizer appeared in the desert and was preaching a baptism conditioned on repentance to obtain the forgiveness of sins.
"What do you want of us, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, God's Holy One!"
But whoever speaks abusively against the Holy Spirit can never get forgiveness, but is guilty of a sin that has no end."
So Herodias had it in for him and wanted to have him killed. But she could not have it done,
for they all saw Him and were terrified. But He at once spoke to them and said, "Keep up courage! It is I; stop being afraid."
and so you set aside what God has said by what you have handed down. You have many other practices like these."
So He sat down and called the Twelve to Him and said, "If anyone wants to be the first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."
And in His teaching He continued to say: "Beware of the scribes who like to go about in long robes, to be saluted with honor in public places,
But he denied it again. And again a few minutes later the bystanders began to say to Peter, "You are surely one of them, for you are a Galilean too."
And the following signs will attend those who believe: By using my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in foreign languages;
Then they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept on working with them and confirming their message by the signs that attended it.
to grant us deliverance from the dreaded hand of our foes, so that we could serve Him
to give His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.
She was very old; from girlhood she had lived seven years with a husband, and now had been a widow eighty years. She never left the temple, but continued to worship all day and all night with fastings and prayers.
And he went all over the Jordan valley, preaching a baptism conditioned on repentance to obtain the forgiveness of sins,
"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
Simon answered, "We have toiled all night and caught nothing, but since you tell me to do so, I will set the nets again."
So He reached out His hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose to; be cured." And at once the leprosy left him.
came up behind Him and touched the tassel on His coat, and the hemorrhage stopped at once. Then Jesus said, "Who was it that touched me?" But as all were denying that they had done so, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are jamming you and jostling you." read more. Still Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, for I felt it when the power passed from me." When the woman saw that she had not escaped His notice, she came forward trembling, and falling down before Him she told in the presence of all the people why she had touched Him and how she had been cured at once.
"When the foul spirit goes out of a man, it wanders about in deserts in search for rest, and since it finds none, it says, 'I will go back to my house which I left.'
So he became angry and would not go into the house. Then his father came out and began to plead with him.
Now the Pharisees who were lovers of money had been listening to all this, and they began to ridicule Him.
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."
and that in His name repentance as the condition for the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the nations. Beginning at Jerusalem
In the beginning the Word existed; and the Word was face to face with God; yea, the Word was God Himself.
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.
"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.
For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure. The Father loves His Son and has put everything in His hands.
You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping; we Jews do know what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the Jews. 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.
Then a much larger number believed in Him because of what He said Himself, and they were saying to the woman, "It is not merely because of what you said that we now believe, for we have heard Him ourselves, and we know that He is really the Saviour of the world."
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.
"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.
and you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the messenger whom He has sent.
So they picked them up and filled twelve baskets with the pieces that were left from the five barley loaves, which were more than the eaters wanted.
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.
Your forefathers in the desert ate the manna, and yet they died.
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.
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. Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood already possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day.
Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood continues to live in union with me and I in union with him. Just as the living Father has sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever keeps on eating me will live because of me. read more. This is the bread that comes down out of heaven; not as your forefathers ate the manna, and yet died. Whoever continues to eat this bread will live forever."
This is the bread that comes down out of heaven; not as your forefathers ate the manna, and yet died. Whoever continues to eat this bread will live forever."
This is the bread that comes down out of heaven; not as your forefathers ate the manna, and yet died. Whoever continues to eat this bread will live forever."
The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.
So Jesus said to the Twelve, "You too do not want to go back, do you?" Simon Peter answered Him, "To whom can we go, Lord? You have the message that gives eternal life,
The Jews were dumbfounded and said, "How can this uneducated man know the Scriptures?"
So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,
I know that you are Abraham's descendants, and yet you are trying to kill me, because there is no room in you for my teaching.
Why is it that you misunderstand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to what I teach.
Why is it that you misunderstand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to what I teach.
Why is it that you misunderstand what I say? It is because you cannot listen to what I teach.
Whoever is sprung from God listens to what God says. This is why you do not listen to me: you are not sprung from God."
I most solemnly say to you, if anyone follows my teaching, he will never experience death." Then the Jews said to Him, "Now we know that you are under the power of a demon. Abraham is dead; the prophets too, and yet you say, 'If anyone follows my teaching, he will never experience death.'
If men to whom God's message came are called gods -- and the Scriptures cannot be made null and void --
So the sisters sent this message to Jesus, "Lord, listen! the one you love so well is sick."
Now Jesus held in loving esteem Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
So the Jews said, "See how tenderly He loved him!"
Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.
And if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to me."
If anyone hears my words and fails to keep them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge but to save the world. Whoever persistently rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings has something to judge him -- the very message I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
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.
Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me? I am not saying these things on my own authority, but the Father who always remains in union with me is doing these things Himself.
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. Whoever does not really love me does not observe my teaching; and yet the teaching which you are listening to is not mine but comes from the Father who has sent me.
You are already pruned because of the teaching that I have given you.
Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.
Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.
for the Father tenderly loves you Himself, because you now tenderly love me and now believe that I have come from the Father.
"I have made your very self known to the men whom you have given me out of the world. At first they were yours, but now you have given them to me, and they have obeyed your message.
for I have given them the teachings that you gave me, and they have accepted them, and they have come to know in reality that I did come from you, and so they are convinced that you did send me.
I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.
Consecrate them by your truth; your message is truth.
Now you have a custom to have me set one man free at your Passover time. So do you wish me to set the king of the Jews free?"
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."
Then He said to them, "Set your net on the right side of the boat, and you will catch them." They did so, and they could not drag it in for the big catch of fish. So that disciple whom Jesus used to love tenderly said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he belted on his fisherman's coat, for he had taken it off, and plunged into the sea. read more. The rest of the disciples followed in the little boat, for they were not far from shore -- only about a hundred yards -- dragging in the net full of fish. When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire all made and a fish lying on it; also some bread. Jesus said to them, "Fetch some of the fish you have just caught." So Simon Peter got into the boat, and pulled the net ashore, full of big fish, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there were so many, the net was not torn.
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.
For you will not forsake my soul to Hades. Nor will you let your Holy One experience decay.
For you will not forsake my soul to Hades. Nor will you let your Holy One experience decay.
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,
They were surprised to see the courage shown by Peter and John and to find that they were uneducated men, and especially untrained in the schools, but they recognized the fact that they had been companions of Jesus,
When they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and continued courageously to speak God's message.
God has exalted to His right hand this very One as our Leader and Saviour, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.
while we will go on devoting ourselves to prayer and the word of God."
But God further promised: 'I will pass sentence on the nation that enslaves them, and after that they will leave that country and worship me on this very spot.'
So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the starry host, as it is written in the Book of the Prophets: 'Did you really offer me victims and sacrifices those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel? No, you offered me the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rompha, the images you had made to worship! So I will now remove you beyond Babylon.'
But Saul continued to harass the church, and by going from house to house and dragging off men and women he continued to put them into prison.
a religious man, too, who revered God with all his household, who was always liberal in his many deeds of charity to the people, and who had the habit of praying to God.
After the angel who had spoken to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his household servants, and a religious soldier who was one of his devoted attendants,
When Peter went into the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet and did homage to him.
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."
When he reached there and saw the spiritual blessing God had given them, he was delighted, and continuously encouraged them all with hearty purpose to continue to be devoted to the Lord;
Now as a proof that He has raised Him from the dead, no more to return to decay, He has spoken this, 'I will fulfill to you the holy promises made to David.'
Now as a proof that He has raised Him from the dead, no more to return to decay, He has spoken this, 'I will fulfill to you the holy promises made to David.' Because in another psalm he says, 'You will not let your Holy One experience decay.'
Because in another psalm he says, 'You will not let your Holy One experience decay.'
So, my brothers, you must understand that through Him the forgiveness of your sins is now proclaimed to you, and that through union with Him every one of you who believes is given right standing with God and freed from every charge from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
After a lengthy discussion Peter got up and said to them, "Brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you that through me the heathen should hear the message of the good news and believe it.
For Moses from the ancient generations has had his preachers in every town, and on every sabbath has been read aloud in the synagogues."
For as I was going here and there and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' So it is about the Being whom you are in ignorance already worshiping that I am telling you.
For as I was going here and there and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' So it is about the Being whom you are in ignorance already worshiping that I am telling you.
For as I was going here and there and looking at the things you worship, I even found an altar with this inscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' So it is about the Being whom you are in ignorance already worshiping that I am telling you.
nor is He served by human hands as though He were in need of anything, for He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
so that they might search for God, possibly they might grope for Him, and find Him, though He is really not far from any of us.
One night in a vision the Lord said to Paul, "Stop being afraid, go on speaking, never give up;
Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and took us to the house of Mnason, a man from Cyprus, one of the early disciples, to spend the night.
There a man named Ananias, a man devout in strict accordance with the law, of good reputation among all the Jews who lived there,
The next day, as he wished to learn the exact reason why the Jews accused him, he had him unbound, and ordered the high priest and the whole council to assemble, and took Paul down and brought him before them.
As I wanted to know the exact charge they were making against him, I brought him before their council,
But I certainly admit this as a fact that in accordance with The Way -- that they call heresy -- I continue to worship the God of my forefathers, and I still believe in everything taught in the law and written in the prophets,
He ordered the captain to keep Paul in custody but to let him have freedom and not to prevent his friends from showing him kindness.
"I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa to Festus. "Tomorrow you shall hear him," said Festus.
which promise our twelve tribes, by devotedly worshiping day and night, hope to see fulfilled for them. It is for this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused by some Jews.
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.'
As Paul continued to make his defense, Festus shouted aloud, "You are going crazy, Paul! That great learning of yours is driving you crazy!"
but the colonel wanted to save Paul, and so he prevented them from carrying out this plan, and ordered all who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land, and the rest to follow,
After examining me the Romans wanted to set me free, because I was innocent of any crime that deserved the death penalty.
proved to be God's Son in power by the resurrection from the dead -- I mean, Jesus Christ, our Lord,
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,
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.
for they had utterly transformed the reality of God into what was unreal, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
for they had utterly transformed the reality of God into what was unreal, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will;
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);
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);
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.
I am speaking in familiar human terms because of the frailty of your nature. For just as you formerly offered the parts of your bodies in slavery to impurity and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now you must once for all offer them in slavery to right-doing, which leads to consecration.
But now, since you have been freed from sin and have become the slaves of God, the immediate result is consecration, and the final destiny is eternal life.
Indeed, I do not understand what I do, for I do not practice what I want to do, but I am always doing what I hate. But if I am always doing what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is right.
For I know that nothing good has its home in me; that is, in my lower self; I have the will but not the power to do what is right. Indeed, I do not do the good things that I want to do, but I do practice the evil things that I do not want to do. read more. But if I do the things that I do not want to do, it is really not I that am doing these things, but it is sin which has its home within me. So I find this law: When I want to do right, the wrong is always in my way.
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.
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.
For they are Israelites; to them belong the privileges of sonship, God's glorious presence, the special covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, the promises,
But it is not that God's word has failed. For not everybody that is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,
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,
So one's destiny does not depend on his own willing or strenuous actions but on God's having mercy on him.
So you will ask me, "Why does He still find fault? For who can resist His will?"
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.
So faith comes from hearing what is told, and hearing through the message about Christ.
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.
For God unveiled them to us through His Spirit, for the Spirit by searching discovers everything, even the deepest truths about God.
So you must stop forming any premature judgments, but wait until the Lord shall come again, for He will bring to light the secrets hidden in the dark and will make known the motives of men's hearts, and the proper praise will be awarded each of us.
You must clean out the old yeast, that you may be a fresh lump, as you are to be free from the old yeast. For our Passover Lamb, Christ, has already been sacrificed. So let us keep our feast, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the bread of purity and truth without the yeast.
However, I should like for everyone to be just as I am myself, yet each of us has his own special gift from God, one for one way, another for another.
If some unbelieving heathen invites you to his house, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question for conscience' sake.
But as it now is, God has placed the parts, every one of them, in the body just as He wanted them to be.
how is the man who occupies the place of the illiterate to say "Amen" to your thanksgiving? For he does not know what you are saying.
Hence, if the whole church has met and everybody speaks in ecstasy, and illiterate people or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are crazy? But if everybody prophesies, and some unbeliever or illiterate man comes in, he is convinced of his sins by all, he is closely questioned by all,
but God gives it just the body He sees fit, even each kind of seed its own body.
A curse upon anyone who does not love the Lord! Our Lord is coming.
For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.
I had no rest of spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and left for Macedonia.
He has qualified even me as a minister of the new covenant, which is not a written but a spiritual covenant. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Besides, their minds were made dull; for to this day that same veil remains unlifted, whenever they read the Old Covenant; because it is only through union with Christ that it is removed.
So, since we have such promises as these, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles our bodies and spirits, and in reverence to God carry on our consecration to completeness.
For even after I had gotten to Macedonia, my frail, human nature could find no relief; I was crushed with sorrow at every turn -- fighting without and fears within.
For I do not want it to be a relief for others and a burden on you,
Although I am untrained as an orator, yet I am not so in the field of knowledge. Surely, I have always made that perfectly clear to you.
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.
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
He has made known to us the secret of His will, which is in accordance with His purpose which He planned in Christ,
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,
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,
once lived while gratifying the cravings of our lower nature, as we continued to carry out the impulses of our lower nature and its thoughts, and by nature we were exposed to God's wrath, as the rest of mankind.
for in their recklessness they have abandoned themselves to sensuality which leads to excessive practices of all sorts of immorality.
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;
You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.
But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people;
You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,
take the helmet salvation provides, and take the sword the Spirit wields, which is the word of God.
For we are the true circumcision, who by the Spirit of God worship Him, who take pride in Christ Jesus only, and do not rely on outward privileges,
by whom we possess the ransom from captivity, which means the forgiveness of our sins.
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,
"You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch,"
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.
Stop lying to one another, for you have stripped off the old self with its practices,
forbearing one another and freely forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; just as the Lord has freely forgiven you, so must you also do.
so that He may strengthen your hearts to be faultless in purity in the sight of God, when our Lord Jesus comes back with all His consecrated ones.
and to give rest to you who are being crushed with sorrows, along with us, at the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven, with His mighty angels
the one who keeps up his opposition and so far exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, that he actually takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
who is ever willing for all mankind to be saved and to come to an increasing knowledge of the truth.
So I want the men everywhere to offer prayer, lifting to heaven holy hands which are kept unstained by anger and dissensions.
Keep the young widows off this roll, for when they get to indulging their lower nature in opposition to Christ, they want to marry,
So I would have the younger women marry, have children, and keep house, so as not to give our opponents any occasion for slander.
So I would have the younger women marry, have children, and keep house, so as not to give our opponents any occasion for slander.
But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin. 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.
For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with anything that we had done, but in accordance with His own purpose and unmerited favor which was shown us through union with Christ Jesus eternal ages ago,
For people will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreverent,
But you, on your part, have faithfully followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
but at the proper time made known as His message through the message that I preach with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Saviour;
but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sensible, upright, of pure life, self-controlled,
let your message be wholesome and unobjectionable, so that our opponent may be put to shame at having nothing evil to say about us.
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 must continue teaching this, and continue exhorting and reproving people, with full authority. Let no one belittle you.
All who are with me wish to be remembered to you. Remember me to all who love me as Christians. Spiritual blessing be with you all.
I would have liked to keep him with me, to wait on me in your stead while I wear these chains for the good news,
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,
For if the message spoken through angels proved to be valid, and every violation and infraction of it had its adequate penalty,
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 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 have experienced how good God's message is and the mighty powers of the age to come,
Therefore, because God wanted to make the strongest demonstration of the unchangeable character of His purpose, He interposed with an oath,
For we needed such a High Priest, holy, innocent, unstained, far removed from sinful men, and elevated far above the very heavens,
and yet they officiate in a sanctuary that is a mere copy and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses, when he was about to make the tent of worship, was warned, for, said He, "See to it that you make it all just like the pattern shown you on the mountain."
So indeed the first covenant had its regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary. For the first or outer part of the tent, which is called the holy place, was equipped with the lamp and table and the presentation bread.
With these arrangements completed in this way, the priests in conducting their official services regularly go into the outer part of the tent of worship;
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?
In fact, under the law, almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood no forgiveness is granted.
Otherwise, would they not have ceased offering them, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sins?
Otherwise, would they not have ceased offering them, because those who offered them, having once been purified, would have had no further consciousness of sins?
"'This is the covenant that I will make with them: In those last days,' says the Lord, 'I will put my laws into their hearts, and write them on their minds,'" He continues to say: "I will never, never any more recall their sins and deeds of wrong." read more. For when these are forgiven, there is no more need of an offering for sin.
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.
By faith he instituted the Passover and the pouring of blood upon the doorposts, so that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.
For they disciplined us only a short time, as it seemed proper to them, but He does it for our good, in order that we may share His holy character.
Continue to live in peace with everybody and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.
For you have not come to a blazing fire that can be touched, to gloom and darkness, storm
for they did not try to bear the order, "Even if a wild animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death,"
Let us, therefore, be thankful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and in this way continue to serve God acceptably in reverence and fear;
We Christians have an altar at which the ministers of the Jewish tent of worship have no right to eat.
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. 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.
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.
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 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.
For they willfully ignore the fact that long ago the heavens existed and the earth that had been formed by God's command out of water and through water,
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?
Dearly beloved, I am not writing you a new command, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the message that you have heard.
Dearly beloved, I am not writing you a new command, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the message that you have heard.
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. Dearly beloved, if God has loved us so, we ought to love one another too.
I will make some, who claim to be Jews although they are not, but are lying -- I will make them come and fall at your feet and find out that I have loved you.
And the four living creatures have each of them six wings, and they are dotted with eyes all around and beneath the wings. And day and night they never cease saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and is and is to come."
This is why they are before the throne of God, and day and night serve Him in His temple, and He who is seated on His throne will shelter them in His tent.
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.
He exercises the full authority of the first wild beast in his presence; he makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first wild beast, whose mortal wound had been healed.
Permission has also been given him to impart life to the statue of the wild beast so that it can speak, and to have all who do not worship the statue of the wild beast killed.
The smoke of their torture will go up forever and ever, and they will have no rest day or night -- those who worship the wild beast and his statue, and anyone who bears the mark of his name."
Who will not fear and glorify your name, O Lord? For you alone are holy. All the nations will come and worship you, because the justice of your sentences has now been shown."
So the first angel went and emptied his bowl upon the earth, and horrible, painful sores broke out on the men who bore the mark of the wild beast and worshiped his statue.
Then I heard the angel of the waters say: "You are just in passing such a sentence, you who are and were, you the Holy One.
Then I fell before his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must take care not to do that. I am only a fellow-slave of yours and of your brothers who hold to the testimony borne by Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony borne by Jesus is the inspiring spirit of prophecy."
He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
No longer will there be anything that has a curse on it. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and His slaves will worship Him,