Adulteresses

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: — read the full passage →

Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

prove all things; hold fast that which is good;

We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

And they went to another village.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patiencewhich arein Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.

Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. — read the full passage →

For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? — read the full passage →

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lordof glory, with respect of persons.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.

for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.

So Christ also glorified not himself to be made a high priest, but he that spake unto him, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee:

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

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

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

There shall be two women grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. — read the full passage →

Now when he was risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. — read the full passage →

And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. — read the full passage →

and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy.

And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.

And their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

And the angel that I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand to heaven, — read the full passage →

These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.

And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth.

Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: — read the full passage →

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him. — read the full passage →

Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son upon the altar?

Thou believest that God is one; thou doest well: the demons also believe, and shudder. — read the full passage →

and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? — read the full passage →

So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.

Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? — read the full passage →

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing. — read the full passage →

Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death. — read the full passage →

For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass; and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. — read the full passage →

But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

And let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.

For verily not to angels doth he give help, but he giveth help to the seed of Abraham.

For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, This day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him a Father, And he shall be to me a Son?

the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded: — read the full passage →

For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come.