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Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans; and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

He said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me even to this very day.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your seed, because you have obeyed my voice.”

since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.” — read the full passage →

I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. — read the full passage →

One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?” — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. — read the full passage →

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying, — read the full passage →

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste: — read the full passage →

The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, — read the full passage →

so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.