Agism

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

these are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the Spirit not having.

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

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;

who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;') --

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

The first man <FI>is<Fi> out of the earth, earthy; the second man <FI>is<Fi> the Lord out of heaven;

and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath. — read the full passage →

And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters,

And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become <FI>those<Fi> of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

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,

and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God,

for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh <FI>day<Fi> thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;' — read the full passage →

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;

the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

because <FI>it is<Fi> God who said, Out of darkness light <FI>is<Fi> to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?' — read the full passage →

and this having said, he breathed on <FI>them<Fi> , and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit;

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.

if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

`He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.'

and he saith to them, `Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men,'