Age Of Accountability

`And your infants, of whom ye have said, For a prey they are, and your sons who have not known to-day good and evil, they go in thither, and to them I give it, and they possess it;

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.

Even by his actions a youth maketh himself known, Whether his work be pure or upright.

The soul that doth sin--it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;

and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

and when he became twelve years old, they having gone up to Jerusalem, according to the custom of the feast, — read the full passage →

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

and now, he hath died, why <FI>is<Fi> this--I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'

for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

say unto them, I live--an affirmation of Jehovah--if, as ye have spoken in Mine ears--so I do not to you; — read the full passage →

every one passing over unto those numbered, from a son of twenty years and upwards, doth give the heave-offering of Jehovah;

And he saith, `While the lad is alive I have fasted, and weep, for I said, Who knoweth? --Jehovah doth pity me, and the lad hath lived; — read the full passage →

And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died; — read the full passage →

And his servants say unto him, `What <FI>is<Fi> this thing thou hast done? because of the living lad thou hast fasted and dost weep, and when the lad is dead thou hast risen and dost eat bread.' — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

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.

in this wilderness do your carcases fall, even all your numbered ones, to all your number, from a son of twenty years and upward, who have murmured against Me;

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

What, then, shall we say? the law <FI>is<Fi> sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

How then shall they call upon <FI>him<Fi> in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe <FI>on him<Fi> of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say--We see, therefore doth your sin remain.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;'

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

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. — 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;

For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water. — read the full passage →

and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

and the command that <FI>is<Fi> for life, this was found by me for death;

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls--according to their works;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

`And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: — read the full passage →

Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.

Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been--as the righteous so the wicked--far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest <FI>it<Fi> to them, — read the full passage →

And his parents were going yearly to Jerusalem, at the feast of the passover, — read the full passage →

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,

And Ezra the priest bringeth the law before the assembly, both of men and women, and every one intelligent to hear, on the first day of the seventh month,

And David saith unto Nathan, `I have sinned against Jehovah.' And Nathan saith unto David, `Also--Jehovah hath caused thy sin to pass away; thou dost not die; — read the full passage →

that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart--

for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay <FI>me<Fi> ;

according as it hath been written--`There is none righteous, not even one;

And he saith, `While the lad is alive I have fasted, and weep, for I said, Who knoweth? --Jehovah doth pity me, and the lad hath lived;

for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

and I--have not I pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than twelve myriads of human beings, who have not known between their right hand and their left--and much cattle!'

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

it seemed good also to me, having followed from the first after all things exactly, to write to thee in order, most noble Theophilus,

`And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last--unto the first. — read the full passage →

At that time was Abijah son of Jeroboam sick, — read the full passage →

Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,