Adaptability

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. — read the full passage →

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.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. — read the full passage →

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.” — read the full passage →

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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

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.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds”, as of many, but as of one, “To your seed”, which is Christ.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Again, “I will put my trust in him.” Again, “Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me.”

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my Good News,

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, — read the full passage →

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For, “He put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when he says, “All things are put in subjection”, it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

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.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand: — read the full passage →

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, — read the full passage →

The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. — read the full passage →

Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound; — read the full passage →

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

‘I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. — read the full passage →

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.