Awakening

wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already <FI>is<Fi> to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer <FI>is<Fi> our salvation than when we did believe;

Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion, Put on the garments of thy beauty, Jerusalem--the Holy City; For enter no more into thee again, Do the uncircumcised and unclean.

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;' — read the full passage →

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. — read the full passage →

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him. — read the full passage →

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

`And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent out of Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they might question him, `Who art thou?' — read the full passage →

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The God of the age--Jehovah, Preparer of the ends of the earth, Is not wearied nor fatigued, There is no searching of His understanding.

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

having foreseen, he did speak concerning the rising again of the Christ, that his soul was not left to hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down--the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord--the Righteous Judge--shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

and if there be no rising again of dead persons, neither hath Christ risen; — read the full passage →

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, `Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons, — read the full passage →

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see--Jesus--because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all <FI>things<Fi> --himself--first,

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious; — read the full passage →

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister--

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it; — read the full passage →

and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

And they build the high places of Baal, that <FI>are<Fi> in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come up on my heart to do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.

I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, your Holy One, Creator of Israel, your King.'

and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works;

and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed--in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil--in their destruction shall be destroyed,

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods?

for neither are they able to die any more--for they are like messengers--and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

And Jesus said to them, `Verily I say to you, that ye who did follow me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man may sit upon a throne of his glory, shall sit--ye also--upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel;

Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice,

and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,' — read the full passage →

Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son--they are Mine, The soul that is sinning--it doth die.

Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire--this <FI>is<Fi> the second death;

and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast--the two--to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

who shall suffer justice--destruction age-during--from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to <FI>them<Fi> , and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God. — read the full passage →

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him, — read the full passage →

and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have--Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

And it hath come to pass, In the latter end of the days, The mount of the house of Jehovah Is established above the top of the mounts, And it hath been lifted up above the hills, And flowed unto it have peoples. — read the full passage →

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;

and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

`And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire--the unquenchable-- — read the full passage →

From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where <FI>is<Fi> thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

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 in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar--Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother, tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene-- — read the full passage →

`But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. — read the full passage →