Arriving On Time

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

if any one doth speak--`as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister--`as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power--to the ages of the ages. Amen.

having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;

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

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together; — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, — read the full passage →

these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

let all things be done decently and in order.

holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching, — read the full passage →

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus--I going on to Macedonia--that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

and when the epistle may be read with you, cause that also in the assembly of the Laodiceans it may be read, and the <FI>epistle<Fi> from Laodicea that ye also may read;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, — read the full passage →

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

But then, indeed, not having known God, ye were in servitude to those not by nature gods, — read the full passage →

and if any one is ignorant--let him be ignorant;

if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you--that of the Lord they are commands;

From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

for God is not <FI>a God<Fi> of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

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

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up; — read the full passage →

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up; — read the full passage →

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

or ministration--`In the ministration!' or he who is teaching--`In the teaching!'

but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,

And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,

and he was reasoning in the synagogue every sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews;

And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews, — read the full passage →

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

and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down, — read the full passage →

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not--but I chose out of the world--because of this the world hateth you.

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, If ye may not eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and may not drink his blood, ye have no life in yourselves; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to her, `Woman, believe me, that there doth come an hour, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father; — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And his parents were going yearly to Jerusalem, at the feast of the passover, — read the full passage →

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

Then were brought near to him children that he might put hands on them and pray, and the disciples rebuked them. — read the full passage →

for where there are two or three gathered together--to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'