Adulteresses

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

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

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend <FI>it<Fi> .

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

because all flesh <FI>is<Fi> as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away, — read the full passage →

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

when I was with them in the world, I was keeping them in Thy name; those whom Thou hast given to me I did guard, and none of them was destroyed, except the son of the destruction, that the Writing may be fulfilled.

for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save;' and they went on to another village.

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

I, John, who also <FI>am<Fi> your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon <FI>you<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter;

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him--to salvation!

so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'

thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee--God, thy God--with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left; — read the full passage →

And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons; — read the full passage →

And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple, — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

`And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign, and the power, and the glory--to the ages. Amen.

Words of Amos--who hath been among herdsmen of Tekoa--that he hath seen concerning Israel, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the shaking; — read the full passage →

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking,

And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems,

and their dead bodies <FI>are<Fi> upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)

And the messenger whom I saw standing upon the sea, and upon the land, did lift up his hand to the heaven, — read the full passage →

These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

because three are who are testifying <FI>in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these--the three--are one;

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up, — read the full passage →

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light; — read the full passage →

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him. — read the full passage →

Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

Abraham our father--was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder! — read the full passage →

and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what <FI>is<Fi> the profit? — read the full passage →

so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him? — read the full passage →

and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing. — read the full passage →

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death. — read the full passage →

for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away; — read the full passage →

and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire--in nothing lacking;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail!

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,

For to which of the messengers said He ever, `My Son thou art--I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'

The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded; — read the full passage →

for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,