Apology

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 →

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

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — 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.

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.

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

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

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

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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 →

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

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 →

“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 →

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.

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 →

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

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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.

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 →

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — 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.

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 →

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

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

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

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 →

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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;

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

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

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.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

For there are three who testify:

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 →

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

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,

for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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.

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

“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles. — read the full passage →

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

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.

For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

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.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

“‘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.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

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 →

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

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

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. — read the full passage →

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”