Apologies

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights— I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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. — read the full passage →

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, — read the full passage →

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.

Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.

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

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

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 →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts; — read the full passage →

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

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 →

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous, — read the full passage →

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.” — read the full passage →

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” — read the full passage →

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? — read the full passage →

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: — read the full passage →

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever. — read the full passage →

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

“Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see the Kingdom of God come with power.” — read the full passage →

He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

For there are three who testify: — read the full passage →

For there are three who testify:

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; — read the full passage →

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense;

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.