Arriving On Time

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.

if any man speaketh, speaking as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.

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

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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. — read the full passage →

These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

But let all things be done decently and in order.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. — read the full passage →

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day: — read the full passage →

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

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

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods: — read the full passage →

But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

What? was it from you that the word of God went forth? or came it unto you alone?

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

And let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern. — read the full passage →

What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. — read the full passage →

What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. — read the full passage →

What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation.

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritualgifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. — read the full passage →

And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues.

Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

or ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;

And when it came to pass that we had accomplished the days, we departed and went on our journey; and they all, with wives and children, brought us on our way till we were out of the city: and kneeling down on the beach, we prayed, and bade each other farewell;

And upon the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and prolonged his speech until midnight.

And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. — read the full passage →

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

Jesus therefore said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, ye have not life in yourselves. — read the full passage →

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover. — read the full passage →

teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should lay his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.