Atheists

On some have compassion, making a distinction,

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

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, — read the full passage →

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?” — read the full passage →

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: — read the full passage →

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, — read the full passage →

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.” — read the full passage →

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts; — read the full passage →

They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. — read the full passage →

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. — read the full passage →

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace. — read the full passage →

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

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. — read the full passage →

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. — read the full passage →

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

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. — read the full passage →

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.

Thus says Yahweh, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ — read the full passage →

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah; who swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness — read the full passage →

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning? — read the full passage →

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us. — read the full passage →

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ — read the full passage →

“I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.

“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest. — read the full passage →

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stay his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: He who hears, let him hear; and he who forbears, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! — read the full passage →

Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. — read the full passage →

Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person. — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication. — read the full passage →

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

He said, “Please show me your glory.” — read the full passage →

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as at the first, — read the full passage →

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. — read the full passage →

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him, — read the full passage →

The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.” — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. — read the full passage →

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. — read the full passage →

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars; — read the full passage →

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. — read the full passage →

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge. — read the full passage →

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. — read the full passage →

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? — read the full passage →

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word. — read the full passage →

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. — read the full passage →

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days? — read the full passage →

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered, — read the full passage →

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →