Appearance Of Evil

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, — read the full passage →

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works--who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men, — read the full passage →

that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

and <FI>that<Fi> because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

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

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

And lo, I come quickly, and my reward <FI>is<Fi> with me, to render to each as his work shall be;

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well,

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

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 the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, — read the full passage →

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

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?

from all appearance of evil abstain ye; — read the full passage →

and the smoke of their torment doth go up to ages of ages; and they have no rest day and night, who are bowing before the beast and his image, also if any doth receive the mark of his name.

And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those slain because of the word of God, and because of the testimony that they held, — read the full passage →

fall down do the twenty and four elders before Him who is sitting upon the throne, and bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying, — read the full passage →

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; — read the full passage →

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

in which they think it strange--your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you--doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna. — read the full passage →

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

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

and let them learn--ours also--to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful. — read the full passage →

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

the good thing committed guard thou through the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in us;

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

continually pray ye;

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

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

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

Wine <FI>is<Fi> a scorner--strong drink <FI>is<Fi> noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat;

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

in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach, — read the full passage →

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll, — read the full passage →

Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself. — read the full passage →

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, — read the full passage →

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

`And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy <FI>is<Fi> the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,

Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand.

They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom <FI>is<Fi> honour and might age-during! Amen.

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price, — read the full passage →