Being A Soldier

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself. — read the full passage →

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel. — read the full passage →

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; — read the full passage →

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. — read the full passage →

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

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.

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

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. — read the full passage →

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. — read the full passage →

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. — read the full passage →

to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need;

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

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.

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful. — read the full passage →

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

and he said, “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine; — read the full passage →

and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

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,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.