'People' in the Bible

For people keep telling us what kind of welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve a living and true God

Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.

We did not seek praise from people from you or from anyone else

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in union with the Messiah Jesus. You suffered the same persecutions from the people of your own country as they did from those Jews

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, who have persecuted us, and who please neither God nor any group of people,

May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.

But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.

When people say, "There is peace and security," destruction will strike them as suddenly as labor pains come to a pregnant woman, and they will not be able to escape.

For people who go to sleep, go to sleep at night; and people who get drunk, get drunk at night.

Such people will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction by being separated from the Lord's presence and from his glorious power

Also pray that we may be rescued from worthless and evil people, since not everyone holds to the faith.

We order and encourage such people by the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

When I was on my way to Macedonia, I urged you to stay in Ephesus so that you could instruct certain people to stop teaching false doctrine

Some people have left these qualities behind and have turned to fruitless discussion.

that is, if he understands that the Law is not intended for righteous people but for lawbreakers and rebels, for ungodly people and sinners, for those who are unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers, their mothers, or other people,

This is a trustworthy saying that deserves complete acceptance: To this world Messiah came, sinful people to reclaim.

with faith and a good conscience. By ignoring their consciences, some people have destroyed their faith like a wrecked ship.

First of all, then, I urge you to offer to God petitions, prayers, intercessions, and expressions of thanks for all people,

who wants all people to be saved and to come to know the truth fully.

Now the Spirit says clearly that in the last times some people will abandon the faith by following deceitful spirits, the teachings of demons,

They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

To this end we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, that is, of those who believe.

The sins of some people are obvious, leading them to judgment. The sins of others follow them there.

and incessant conflict between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth. They think that godliness is a way to make a profit.

But people who want to get rich keep toppling into temptation and are trapped by many stupid and harmful desires that plunge them into destruction and ruin.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.

What you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.

However, avoid pointless discussions. For people will become more and more ungodly,

Therefore, if anyone stops associating with these people, he will become a special utensil, set apart for the owner's use, prepared for every good action.

People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.

But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.

For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people's own desires.

For there are many people who are rebellious, especially those who are converts from Judaism. They speak utter nonsense and deceive people.

They must be silenced, because they are the kind of people who ruin whole families by teaching what they should not teach in order to make money in a shameful way.

and not pay attention to Jewish myths or commands given by people who reject the truth.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every wrong and to cleanse us so that we could be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good deeds.

This saying is trustworthy. I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have put their faith in God may devote themselves to good actions. These things are good and helpful to other people.

Our own people should also learn to make good deeds a priority when urgent needs arise, so they won't be unproductive.

There remains, therefore, a Sabbath rest for the people of God to keep,

He can deal gently with people who are ignorant and easily deceived, since he himself is subject to weakness.

For that reason he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as for those of the people.

In fact, though by now you should be teachers, you still need someone to teach you the basic truths of God's word. You have become people who need milk instead of solid food.

But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit,

For people swear by someone greater than themselves, and an oath given as confirmation puts an end to all argument.

The descendants of Levi who accept the priesthood have a commandment in the Law to collect a tenth from the people, that is, from their own brothers, even though they are also descendants of Abraham.

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood for on this basis the people received the Law what further need would there be to speak of appointing another kind of priest according to the order of Melchizedek, not one according to the order of Aaron?

He has no need to offer sacrifices every day like high priests do, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he sacrificed himself.

but God found something wrong with his people when he said, "Look! The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

But only the high priest went into the second part, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins committed by the people in ignorance.

For after every commandment in the Law had been spoken to all the people by Moses, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with some water, scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

so the Messiah was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people. And he will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly wait for him.

For we know the one who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

At times you were made a public spectacle by means of insults and persecutions, while at other times you associated with people who were treated this way.

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

For people who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own.

because he preferred being mistreated with God's people to enjoying the pleasures of sin for a short time.

By faith he established the Passover and the sprinkling of blood to keep the destroyer of the firstborn from touching the people.

Women received their dead raised back to life. Other people were brutally tortured, but refused to be ransomed, so that they might gain a better resurrection.

All these people won approval for their faith but they did not receive what was promised,

to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of righteous people who have been made perfect,

That is why Jesus, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood, also suffered outside the city gate.

But you have humiliated the man who is poor. Are not rich people the ones who oppress you and drag you into court?

You must make it your habit to speak and act like people who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.

Now listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you.

To: The exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, the people chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father through the sanctifying action of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus, the Messiah, and to be sprinkled with his blood. May grace and peace be yours in abundance!

As you come to him, the living stone who was rejected by people but was chosen and precious in God's sight,

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

For it is God's will that by doing right you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

Live like free people, and do not use your freedom as an excuse for doing evil. Instead, be God's servants.

Do not lord it over the people entrusted to you, but be examples to the flock.

In a similar way, you young people must submit to the elders. All of you must clothe yourselves with humility for the sake of each other, because: "God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble."

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there also will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.

Many people will follow their immoral ways, and because of them the way of truth will be maligned.

and if he did not spare the ancient world but protected Noah, a righteous preacher, along with seven others when he brought the flood on the world of ungodly people;

and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them by burning them to ashes, making them an example to ungodly people of what is going to happen to them;

and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man who was greatly distressed by the immoral conduct of lawless people

then the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and to hold unrighteous people for punishment on the day of judgment,

These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,

By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

Now by that same word, the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire and are being kept for the day when ungodly people will be judged and destroyed.

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some people understand slowness, but is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to perish, but wants everyone to repent.

Since everything will be destroyed in this way, think of the kind of holy and godly people you ought to be

He speaks about this subject in all his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, leading to their own destruction, as they do the rest of the Scriptures.

And so, dear friends, since you already know these things, continuously be on your guard not to be carried away by the deception of lawless people. Otherwise, you may fall from your secure position.

I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome the evil one.

I have written to you, little children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the one who has existed from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, because you are strong and because God's word remains in you and you have overcome the evil one.

These people belong to the world. That is why they speak from the world's perspective, and the world listens to them.

Therefore, we ought to support such people so that we can become genuine helpers with them.

For some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this condemnation because they are ungodly. They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.

Now I want to remind you, even though you are fully aware of these things, that the Lord who once saved his people from the land of Egypt later destroyed those who did not believe.

Whatever these people do not understand, they slander. Like irrational animals, they are destroyed by the very things they know by instinct.

These people are stains on your love feasts. They feast with you without any sense of awe. They are shepherds who care only for themselves. They are waterless clouds blown about by the winds. They are autumn trees that are fruitless, totally dead, and uprooted.

Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied about these people when he said, "Look! The Lord has come with countless thousands of his holy ones.

15He will judge all people and convict everyone of all the ungodly things that they have done in such an ungodly way, including all the harsh things that these ungodly sinners have said about him."