Admiration

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. — read the full passage →

The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

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

One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?” — read the full passage →

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet, — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the Kingdom of God would be revealed immediately. — read the full passage →

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, — read the full passage →

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

After he had taken leave of them, he went up the mountain to pray.

He called to himself the twelve, and began to send them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits. — read the full passage →

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, limasabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed. — read the full passage →

Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.” — read the full passage →

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven,but my Father only.

When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, — read the full passage →

As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. — read the full passage →

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. — read the full passage →

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. — read the full passage →

After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. — read the full passage →

While he told these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

I myself am Yahweh; and besides me there is no savior.

“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

“Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. — read the full passage →

So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Take your choice: — read the full passage →

Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, — read the full passage →

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

It was a hand breadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.

Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains; — read the full passage →

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

Again Yahweh’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians seven hundred charioteers, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.

When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer, — read the full passage →

David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →

He said, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live.”

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of sons and daughters.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”