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for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, — read the full passage →

and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,' — read the full passage →

`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave! — read the full passage →

and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

for <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

And he said, `A certain man had two sons, — read the full passage →

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint,

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

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. — read the full passage →

Ye were running well; who did hinder you--not to obey the truth?

remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place--if thou mayest not reform;

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; — read the full passage →

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

not of works, that no one may boast;

He said, `I <FI>am<Fi> a voice of one crying in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.'

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

`And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

but whoever may speak evil in regard to the Holy Spirit hath not forgiveness--to the age, but is in danger of age-during judgment;'

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, — read the full passage →

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

in meekness instructing those opposing--if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

And the Lord said, `Simon, Simon, lo, the Adversary did ask you for himself to sift as the wheat, — read the full passage →

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

`The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.

I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot. — read the full passage →

for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged <FI>it<Fi> , to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

and having fallen away, again to renew <FI>them<Fi> to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.

Because of this it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside, — read the full passage →

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

The pattern hold thou of sound words, which from me thou didst hear, in faith and love that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that <FI>is<Fi> in the Christ;

so that he who is thinking to stand--let him observe, lest he fall.

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.

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

From this <FI>time<Fi> many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him,

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.

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

`And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray;

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →