while the angels who did not keep their first domain but left their proper abode, are held by him in blank darkness, in everlasting chains, in preparation for the judgment of the Great Day.

"Abide in me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

And we do know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he who is abiding in love is abiding in God, and God is abiding in him.

"If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever your will is, and it shall be yours.

"If you obey my commands you will abide in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and abide in his love.

If what you have heard from the beginning is abiding in you, you also will ever abide in the Son and in the Father.

He who keeps his commandments is abiding in Him, and Christ in him. By this we know that Christ is abiding in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

Whoever is going ahead, and is not abiding in the teachings of Christ, does not possess God; but he who is abiding in the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son.

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night.

But they urged him to stay with them, saying, "Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent."

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him."

"He who feeds upon my flesh abides in me and I in him.

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

Then the people answered. "We have heard out of the Law that the Christ abides forever. What do you mean by 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? Who is this Son of man?"

"I am the Vine you are the branches. He who abides in me and I in him, bears abundant fruit; because apart from me you can do nothing.

"If any one does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire and burned.

"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.

Examine yourselves to see if you are in the faith; put your own selves to the proof. Or do you not know, your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless indeed you fail to abide the proof?

But I hope you will find that I abide the proof.

And my prayer to God is that you may do no evil; not in order that I may appear approved, but that you may do what is noble, though I should seem unable to abide the proof.

To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.

If you then are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ abides, seated on the right hand of God.

but he, because of his abiding forever, holds his priesthood inviolable.

If we prove faithless. he abides faithful, for he cannot be false to himself."

But the word of the Lord abides forever. And this is the word of the gospel which has been told to you.

For we have not here an abiding city, but we are earnestly seeking the city that is to be.

But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling.

I have written to you, fathers, because you have learned to know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is abiding in you, and you have fully overcome the Evil One.

and the world and its lusts are passing away, but he who ever does the will of God abides forever.

Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father; but he who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.

As to you, the unction you received from him remains ever in you, and you need no teaching from any one. But since his unction teaches you concerning all things and is true, and is no lie, abide continually in him, as it has taught you to do.

And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Whoever continually abides in him does not habitually sin; whoever lives in sin has not seen him, nor come to know him.

Whoever is a child of God cannot go on sinning, because his seed is abiding in him; and he cannot go on sinning because he is a child of God.

We know that we have migrated, out of death into life, because we love our brothers. He who has no love is abiding in death.

Every one who is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

But whoever has this world's goods, and beholds his brother in need, and shuts up his heart against him, how can the love of God continue to abide in him?

No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

By this we come to know that we are abiding in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit;

If any man confesses that "Jesus is the Son of God." God is abiding in that man, and he in God.

I love you for the sake of the truth which is abiding in us and will be with us forever.

If, however, the administration of death, written with letters and engraved on stones, began in glory, so that the children of Israel could not gaze steadily on the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face?? glory even then fading??8 how much more shall the ministry of the Spirit abide in glory?

For if that which was fading came in glory, far more will that which ever abides be glorious.

(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)