Being Ashamed

and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

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.

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

`For whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, of this one shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when he may come in his glory, and the Father's, and the holy messengers';

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;

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

therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

for whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also shall be ashamed of him, when he may come in the glory of his Father, with the holy messengers.'

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

and whoever shall deny me before men, I also will deny him before my Father who is in the heavens.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue, — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

`Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens; — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

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

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

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

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

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. — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

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

according as it hath been written, `Lo, I place in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence; and every one who is believing thereon shall not be ashamed.'

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

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 →

And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard--to that day.

then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

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

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?

For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, `And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

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

may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;

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.

`And I say to you, Every one--whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God, — read the full passage →

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith--considering the issue of the behaviour--be imitating,

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 for me, let it not be--to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

for the weapons of our warfare <FI>are<Fi> not fleshly, but powerful to God for bringing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,

also we--we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

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;

for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

`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.

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.