Assyrians

That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

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 it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. — read the full passage →

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. — read the full passage →

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, — read the full passage →

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, — read the full passage →

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. — read the full passage →

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching. — read the full passage →

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.”’”

“The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, — read the full passage →

But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language;

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, — read the full passage →

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 →

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 →

He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.” — read the full passage →

A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”

After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory. — read the full passage →

The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.

There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. — read the full passage →

There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. — read the full passage →

and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there will no longer be delay,

The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.

The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time. — read the full passage →

Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

For if I make you sorry, then who will make me glad but he who is made sorry by me? — read the full passage →

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. — read the full passage →

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. — read the full passage →

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; — read the full passage →

Isaiah is very bold, and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”

As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. — read the full passage →

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one. — read the full passage →

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →

saying, ‘Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. — read the full passage →

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.