Bad Counsel

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock, — read the full passage →

Then one of the twelve, who is called Judas Iscariot, having gone unto the chief priests, said, — read the full passage →

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.

and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with 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 →

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

for the Writing saith, `Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,'

let them alone, guides they are--blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

Ye--of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who <FI>is<Fi> in you, than he who is in the world.

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing,

take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.

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

And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, `Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.' — read the full passage →

I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre, — read the full passage →

Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?' — read the full passage →

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.