Adulteresses

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — 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.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

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

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; — read the full passage →

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

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

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

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

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

I John, your brother and partner with you in oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

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

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

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

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

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

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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

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

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.”

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

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

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have 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 in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left.” — read the full passage →

Now when he had 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 →

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

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

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. ’

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 →

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

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

The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to the sky, — read the full passage →

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

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

For there are three who testify:

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: — read the full passage →

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

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. — read the full passage →

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder. — read the full passage →

and one of you tells them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled”; and yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it? — read the full passage →

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? — read the full passage →

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, produces death. — read the full passage →

For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. — read the full passage →

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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

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

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham.

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today have I become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded; — read the full passage →

For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

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