Being A Disciple

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, — read the full passage →

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; — read the full passage →

if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me--honour him will the Father.

And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me;

and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one perfected shall be as his teacher.

`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

and he saith to them, `Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men,'

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

`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.

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

And there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them, — read the full passage →

And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, `Whoever doth will to come after me--let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me;

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; — read the full passage →

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ.

But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but--to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

And Jesus passing by thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, named Matthew, and saith to him, `Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;

and Jesus said to them, `Come ye after me, and I shall make you to become fishers of men;'

Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

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.'

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.

`In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

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.

`A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord;

and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men. — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

When, therefore, he washed their feet, and took his garments, having reclined (at meat) again, he said to them, `Do ye know what I have done to you? — read the full passage →

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

And he said to them, `Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.'

And while he was yet speaking to the multitudes, lo, his mother and brethren had stood without, seeking to speak to him, — read the full passage →

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

and immediately, having left their nets, they followed him.

and in like manner also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon; and Jesus said unto Simon, `Fear not, henceforth thou shalt be catching men;' — read the full passage →

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek,

They reviled him, therefore, and said, `Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;

and immediately he called them, and, having left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, they went away after him.

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

`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;

And the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mount where Jesus appointed them, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

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

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure sicknesses, — read the full passage →

and having come down with them, he stood upon a level spot, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea, and Jerusalem, and the maritime Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their sicknesses,

he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world--to life age-during shall keep it;

`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

And evening having come, there came a rich man, from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus,

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — 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.'

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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

On the morrow, he willed to go forth to Galilee, and he findeth Philip, and saith to him, `Be following me.'

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple; — read the full passage →

And there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them, — read the full passage →

and passing by, he saw Levi of Alpheus sitting at the tax-office, and saith to him, `Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

sufficient to the disciple that he may be as his teacher, and the servant as his lord; if the master of the house they did call Beelzeboul, how much more those of his household?

`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden: — read the full passage →

whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

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

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

And it came to pass, in the multitude pressing on him to hear the word of God, that he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, — read the full passage →

and Jesus having called them near, said, `Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them, — read the full passage →

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

And the word of God did increase, and the number of the disciples did multiply in Jerusalem exceedingly; a great multitude also of the priests were obedient to the faith.

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, — read the full passage →

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;'

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

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

And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices; — read the full passage →

And the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees were fasting, and they come and say to him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John and those of the Pharisees fast, and thy disciples do not fast?'

`And, going on, proclaim saying that, the reign of the heavens hath come nigh;

And they said unto him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications--in like manner also those of the Pharisees--but thine do eat and drink?'

And after these things he went forth, and beheld a tax-gatherer, by name Levi, sitting at the tax-office, and said to him, `Be following me;'

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him, — read the full passage →

And the disciples of John told him about all these things,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'