Being A Mason

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God; — read the full passage →

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! — read the full passage →

even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy cut stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.

and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” — read the full passage →

“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work.

Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s, — read the full passage →

Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for Yahweh’s house one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them. — read the full passage →

Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of Yahweh’s house; and let them give it to the workmen who are in Yahweh’s house, to repair the breaches of the house, — read the full passage →

They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of Yahweh’s house: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on Yahweh’s house, — read the full passage →

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. — read the full passage →

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

“‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty of one of these. — read the full passage →

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. — read the full passage →

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — 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.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ;

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense. — read the full passage →

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul. — read the full passage →

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

He commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?” — read the full passage →

The high priest said, “Are these things so?” — read the full passage →

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — 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.”

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

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders. — read the full passage →

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. — read the full passage →

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” — read the full passage →