Avoiding Sin

If you love me, keep my commandments.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

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 he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. — read the full passage →

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →

Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel. — read the full passage →

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, — read the full passage →

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found. — read the full passage →

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; — read the full passage →

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. — read the full passage →

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? — read the full passage →

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →

They all built the wall and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands worked in the work, and with the other held his weapon; — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.

Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears”; — read the full passage →

Behold, I have set before you this day life and prosperity, and death and evil. — read the full passage →

Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them. — read the full passage →

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

David said to his men, “Every man put on his sword!” Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man. — read the full passage →

I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished. — read the full passage →

When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. — read the full passage →

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. — read the full passage →

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. — 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 →

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’”

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. — read the full passage →

from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions.