Thematic Bible: Encouraged
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Brotherly kindness » Encouraged
in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;
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that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
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Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,
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The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
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and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.
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who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time, in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,
Charity » Encouraged
and above all these things, have love, which is a bond of the perfection,
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Cleanliness » Encouraged
'But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face,
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may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;
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and thou hast bathed, and anointed thyself, and put thy garments upon thee, and gone down to the threshing-floor; let not thyself be known to the man till he complete to eat and to drink;
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And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who are with him, 'Turn aside the gods of the stranger which are in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;
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And the priest hath seen him on the second seventh day, and lo, the plague is become weak, and the plague hath not spread in the skin -- and the priest hath pronounced him clean, it is a scab, and he hath washed his garments, and hath been clean.
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'And thus thou dost to them to cleanse them: sprinkle upon them waters of atonement, and they have caused a razor to pass over all their flesh, and have washed their garments, and cleansed themselves,
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Confession of sin » Encouraged
and, now, make confession to Jehovah, God of your fathers, and do His good pleasure, and be separated from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.'
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and Aaron hath laid his two hands on the head of the living goat, and hath confessed over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, and hath put them on the head of the goat, and hath sent it away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness;
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Only, know thine iniquity, For against Jehovah thy God thou hast transgressed, And thou dost scatter thy ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And to My voice thou hast not hearkened, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
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Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.
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And -- they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,
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and they have confessed their sin which they have done, then he hath restored his guilt in its principal, and its fifth is adding to it, and hath given it to him in reference to whom he hath been guilty.
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He looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
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Forbearance » Encouraged
And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.
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forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;
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all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.
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with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,
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God » Love to » Encouraged
Love Jehovah, all ye His saints, Jehovah is keeping the faithful, And recompensing abundantly a proud doer.
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and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,
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Only, be very watchful to do the command and the law which Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him, with all your heart, and with all your soul.'
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yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ -- to life age-during;
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And Jesus said to him, 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding --
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'And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
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'And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;
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and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.
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Good for evil » Examples of returning » Encouraged
when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving it to it -- thou dost certainly leave it with him.
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If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water.
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'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;
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see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;
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I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;
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but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,
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'But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » In love
and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
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for ye do it also to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Select readings
concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing, for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food, for every one who is partaking of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness -- for he is an infant, read more.
and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on also of hands, of rising again also of the dead, and of judgment age-during, and this we will do, if God may permit, read more.
for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, and having fallen away, again to renew them to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame. For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God, and that which is bearing thorns and briers is disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end is for burning; and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak, for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering; and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end, that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises. For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, saying, 'Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise; for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath,
for it is impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, and having fallen away, again to renew them to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame. For earth, that is drinking in the rain many times coming upon it, and is bringing forth herbs fit for those because of whom also it is dressed, doth partake of blessing from God, and that which is bearing thorns and briers is disapproved of, and nigh to cursing, whose end is for burning; and we are persuaded, concerning you, beloved, the things that are better, and accompanying salvation, though even thus we speak, for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering; and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end, that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises. For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself, saying, 'Blessing indeed I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;' and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise; for men indeed do swear by the greater, and an end of all controversy to them for confirmation is the oath,
spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Into Christ
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
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to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » In fruitfulness
and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Formation
And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
spiritual Growth » Encouraged » In grace and knowledge
and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Through "the word"
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
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spiritual Growth » Encouraged » Unto perfection
Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,
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Humiliation and self-affliction » Encouraged
and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I -- I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.
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And I proclaim there a fast, by the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a right way for us, and for our infants, and for all our substance, for I was ashamed to ask from the king a force and horsemen to help us because of the enemy in the way, for we spake to the king, saying, 'The hand of our God is upon all seeking Him for good, and His strength and His wrath is upon all forsaking Him.' And we fast, and seek from our God for this, and He is entreated of us.
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, Only -- on the tenth of this seventh month is a day of atonements; ye have a holy convocation, and ye have humbled yourselves, and have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah; and ye do no work in this self-same day, for it is a day of atonements, to make atonement for you, before Jehovah your God. read more.
'For any person who is not humbled in this self-same day hath even been cut off from his people; and any person who doth any work in this self-same day I have even destroyed that person from the midst of his people; ye do no work -- a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings. It is a sabbath of rest to you, and ye have humbled yourselves in the ninth of the month at even; from evening till evening ye do keep your sabbath.'
'For any person who is not humbled in this self-same day hath even been cut off from his people; and any person who doth any work in this self-same day I have even destroyed that person from the midst of his people; ye do no work -- a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings. It is a sabbath of rest to you, and ye have humbled yourselves in the ninth of the month at even; from evening till evening ye do keep your sabbath.'
And it hath been to you for a statute age-during, in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, ye humble yourselves, and do no work -- the native, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst; for on this day he maketh atonement for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins before Jehovah ye are clean; it is to you a sabbath of rest, and ye have humbled yourselves -- a statute age-during.
Humility » Encouraged
In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;
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For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,
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He hath declared to thee, O man, what is good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?
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'But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;
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For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,
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by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;
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be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
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but ye are not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;
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Instruction » Of children encouraged » Encouraged
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
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and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
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and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,
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and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'
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So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,
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'And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.
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Charge these things, and teach;
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Justice » Encouraged
The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.
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Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.
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Righteousness -- righteousness thou dost pursue, so that thou livest, and hast possessed the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.
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Thus said Jehovah: 'Keep ye judgment, and do righteousness, For near is My salvation to come, And My righteousness to be revealed.'
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To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.
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render, therefore, to all their dues; to whom tribute, the tribute; to whom custom, the custom; to whom fear, the fear; to whom honour, the honour.
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Kindness » Encouraged
in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;
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that the proof of your faith -- much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved -- may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,
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Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,
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The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
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and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.
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who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time, in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,
Leaders » Preaching » Encouraged
and he said to them, 'Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;
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that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.
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'And, going on, proclaim saying that, the reign of the heavens hath come nigh;
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preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
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and Jesus said to him, 'Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'
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and he sent them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the ailing.
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'Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'
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Longsuffering » Encouraged
The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
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in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.
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preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
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And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
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in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
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Love » Good for evil examples of returning » Encouraged
when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving it to it -- thou dost certainly leave it with him.
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If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water.
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'But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;
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see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;
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I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;
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but I -- I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,
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'But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,
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Loyalty » Encouraged
If the spirit of the ruler go up against thee, Thy place leave not, For yielding quieteth great sinners.
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and any who doth not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, speedily is judgment done upon him, whether to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of riches, and to bonds.'
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Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,
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Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?'
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I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God.
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Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,
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Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,
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'God thou dost not revile, and a prince among thy people thou dost not curse.
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that they be bringing near sweet savours to the God of heaven, and praying for the life of the king, and of his sons.
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and hast put of thine honour upon him, so that all the company of the sons of Israel do hearken.
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Mercy » Encouraged
And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.
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And the king of Israel saith unto Elisha, at his seeing them, 'Do I smite -- do I smite -- my father?' And he saith, 'Thou dost not smite; those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow art thou smiting? set bread and water before them, and they eat, and drink, and go unto their lord.' And he prepareth for them great provision, and they eat and drink, and he sendeth them away, and they go unto their lord: and troops of Aram have not added any more to come in to the land of Israel.
I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head; Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.
Ministers » Work of preaching » Encouraged
and he said to them, 'Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;
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that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.
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'And, going on, proclaim saying that, the reign of the heavens hath come nigh;
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preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
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and Jesus said to him, 'Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'
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and he sent them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the ailing.
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'Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'
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Patience » Encouraged
and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;
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in your patience possess ye your souls.
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in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;
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and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;
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Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain -- early and latter;
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and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,
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and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
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Better is the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better is the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.
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aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
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for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,
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Praise » Encouraged » Heavenly
And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, Glory in the highest to God, and upon earth peace, among men -- good will.'
Praise ye Him, all His messengers, Praise ye Him, all His hosts.
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and they sing, as it were, a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the hundred forty-four thousands, who have been bought from the earth;
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saying, 'We give thanks to Thee, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art, and who wast, and who art coming, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and didst reign;
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And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within are full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;'
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And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders -- and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands -- saying with a great voice, 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing!'
And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God, saying, 'Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, are to our God -- to the ages of the ages! Amen!'
And a voice out of the throne did come forth, saying, 'Praise our God, all ye His servants, and those fearing Him, both the small and the great;'
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Praise » Encouraged » Nature's
Sing, O heavens, and joy, O earth, And break forth, O mountains, with singing, For comforted hath Jehovah His people, And His afflicted ones He doth pity.
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Clothed have lambs the flock, And valleys are covered with corn, They shout -- yea, they sing!
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Sing, O heavens, for Jehovah hath wrought, Shout, O lower parts of earth, Break forth, O mountains, with singing, Forest, and every tree in it, For Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, And in Israel He doth beautify Himself.
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For with joy ye go forth, And with peace ye are brought in, The mountains and the hills Break forth before you with singing, And all trees of the field clap the hand.
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Praise ye Him, sun and moon, Praise ye Him, all stars of light.
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The heavens and earth do praise Him, Seas, and every moving thing in them.
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Floods clap hand, together hills cry aloud,
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Praise » Encouraged » Universal
They ascribe to Jehovah honour, And His praise in the isles they declare.
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Praise Thee do peoples, O God, Praise Thee do peoples, all of them.
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Praise » Encouraged » Perpetually
through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name;
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Praise » Encouraged » Four-fold reason for
and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
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Praise » Encouraged » With musical instruments
Give ye thanks to Jehovah with a harp, With psaltery of ten strings sing praise to Him,
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Praise » Encouraged » In song
Sing ye praise to Jehovah, inhabiting Zion, Declare ye among the peoples His acts,
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Prayer » Boldness in » Encouraged
we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace -- for seasonable help.
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Purification of heart » Cleansing, spiritual » Encouraged
draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
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Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;
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and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.
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if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,
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and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.
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Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.
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Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
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cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,
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Quietness » Encouraged
but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,
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Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'
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and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,
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for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,
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Better is a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.
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and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;
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Religious » Support of unfaithful » Encouraged
and he said to them, 'Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;
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that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.
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'And, going on, proclaim saying that, the reign of the heavens hath come nigh;
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preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,
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and Jesus said to him, 'Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'
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and he sent them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the ailing.
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'Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'
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Restitution » Encouraged
if the sun hath risen upon him, blood is for him, he doth certainly repay; if he have nothing, then he hath been sold for his theft;
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'Then it hath been, when he sinneth, and hath been guilty, that he hath returned the plunder which he hath taken violently away, or the thing which he hath got by oppression, or the deposit which hath been deposited with him, or the lost thing which he hath found;
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And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.
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(The pledge the wicked restoreth, plunder he repayeth,) In the statutes of life he hath walked, So as not to do perversity, He surely liveth -- he doth not die.
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Righteousness » Encouraged
Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.
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Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,
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and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;
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and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, 'For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'
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'Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.
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'For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.
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awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.
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being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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Sanctification » Encouraged
for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
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and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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And he saith to them, 'Hear me, O Levites, now, sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the sanctuary,
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and ye have been holy to Me; for holy am I, Jehovah; and I separate you from the peoples to become Mine.
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And Joshua saith unto the people, 'Sanctify yourselves, for to-morrow doth Jehovah do in your midst wonders.'
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and also the priests who are coming nigh unto Jehovah do sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth on them.'
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and he saith, 'Peace; to sacrifice to Jehovah I have come, sanctify yourselves, and ye have come in with me to the sacrifice;' and he sanctifieth Jesse and his sons, and calleth them to the sacrifice.
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And unto the people thou dost say, Sanctify yourselves for to-morrow, and ye have eaten flesh (for ye have wept in the ears of Jehovah, saying, Who doth give us flesh? for we had good in Egypt) -- and Jehovah hath given to you flesh, and ye have eaten.
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Self-examination » Encouraged
Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?
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Sin » Confession of » Encouraged
and, now, make confession to Jehovah, God of your fathers, and do His good pleasure, and be separated from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.'
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and Aaron hath laid his two hands on the head of the living goat, and hath confessed over it all the iniquities of the sons of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, and hath put them on the head of the goat, and hath sent it away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness;
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Only, know thine iniquity, For against Jehovah thy God thou hast transgressed, And thou dost scatter thy ways to strangers, Under every green tree, And to My voice thou hast not hearkened, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
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Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.
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And -- they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,
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and they have confessed their sin which they have done, then he hath restored his guilt in its principal, and its fifth is adding to it, and hath given it to him in reference to whom he hath been guilty.
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He looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
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Social duties » Fidelity in business » Justice » The poor » Encouraged
a king that is judging truly the poor, His throne for ever is established.
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Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.
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Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.
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He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then it is well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.
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Spiritual » Encouraged » In love
and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
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for ye do it also to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,
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Spiritual » Encouraged » Into Christ
and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;
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to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
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Spiritual » Encouraged » In fruitfulness
and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,
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Spiritual » Encouraged » Formation
And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
Spiritual » Encouraged » In grace and knowledge
and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him is the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.
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Spiritual » Encouraged » Through "the word"
as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
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Spiritual » Encouraged » Unto perfection
Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,
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teaching » Spirit as » Encouraged
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;
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and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,
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and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,
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and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.'
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So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,
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'And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.
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Charge these things, and teach;
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Thanksgiving » Encouraged
for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;
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giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;
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and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, do all things in the name of the Lord Jesus -- giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.
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because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,
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Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.
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Give thanks to Jehovah, call in His name, Make known among the peoples His doings.
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in every thing give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.
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A Psalm. -- A Song for the sabbath-day. Good to give thanks to Jehovah, And to sing praises to Thy name, O Most High,
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Witnessing to the truth » Encouraged
and ye also do testify, because from the beginning ye are with me.
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but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'
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Ye are My witnesses, an affirmation of Jehovah, And My servant whom I have chosen, So that ye know and give credence to Me, And understand that I am He, Before Me there was no God formed, And after Me there is none.
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these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!
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'Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;' and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,
And the Lord said through a vision in the night to Paul, 'Be not afraid, but be speaking and thou mayest be not silent; because I am with thee, and no one shall set on thee to do thee evil; because I have much people in this city;'
and he said, The God of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth, because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard;
Works, good » Encouraged » Insufficient to secure salvation
for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift, not of works, that no one may boast;
who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,
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wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,
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having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'
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Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things? and then I will acknowledge to them, that -- I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.
wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.
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and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.
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and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear (not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Works, good » Encouraged » Examples of
I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,
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And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;
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for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me; naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me.
unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,
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Be mindful of me, O my God, for this, and do not blot out my kind acts that I have done, for the house of my God, and for its charges.
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there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat). And having seen it, his disciples were much displeased, saying, 'To what purpose is this waste?
And Jesus having known, said to them, 'Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for a good work she wrought for me;
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Works, good » Encouraged » Furnish a pattern for imitation
who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
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Stedfast is the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,
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concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,
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Works, good » Encouraged » Glorify God
so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
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to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,
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Works, good » Encouraged » Demonstrate the reality of faith
having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
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so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself. But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:
Works, good » Encouraged » Enriched life
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,
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Works, good » Encouraged » Tend to summons others to their tasks
and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,
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Zeal » The Call of Duty » Encouraged
and it is good to be zealously regarded, in what is good, at all times, and not only in my being present with you;
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'As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;
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so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;
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in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;
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All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.
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For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,
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and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding you,
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