Appearance Of Evil

abstain from every form of evil.

Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity, — read the full passage →

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men: — read the full passage →

that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? — read the full passage →

not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day, yea and for ever.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:

And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: — read the full passage →

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

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

Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?

abstain from every form of evil. — read the full passage →

and the smoke of their torment goeth up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, they that worship the beast and his image, and whoso receiveth the mark of his name.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: — read the full passage →

the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying, — read the full passage →

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.

For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. — read the full passage →

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man:

I thank my God always, making mention of thee in my prayers, — read the full passage →

And let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. — read the full passage →

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

That good thing which was committed unto thee guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.

prove all things; hold fast that which is good;

pray without ceasing;

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

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

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And there came unto him Pharisees, trying him, and saying, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? — read the full passage →

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, — read the full passage →

Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.

I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: — read the full passage →

Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you.

whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. — read the full passage →

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — read the full passage →

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, — read the full passage →

But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, and forbear threatening: knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no respect of persons with him.

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),

And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power eternal. Amen.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment; — read the full passage →