Being Assertive

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. — read the full passage →

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, — read the full passage →

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain. — read the full passage →

As you enter into the household, greet it. — read the full passage →

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ. — read the full passage →

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. — read the full passage →

I don’t make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!” — read the full passage →

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. — read the full passage →

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For now I would have stretched out my hand, and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth; — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. — read the full passage →

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? — read the full passage →

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; — read the full passage →

This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that. — read the full passage →

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds. — read the full passage →

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do. — read the full passage →

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me. — read the full passage →

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

Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

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 →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. — read the full passage →

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — read the full passage →

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. — read the full passage →

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness: they have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing. — read the full passage →

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited. — read the full passage →

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. — read the full passage →

“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah. — read the full passage →

Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai, — read the full passage →

They told to Mordecai Esther’s words. — read the full passage →

Then the king said to me, “For what do you make request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven. — read the full passage →

Naboth said to Ahab, “May Yahweh forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you!”

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. — read the full passage →

David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”

Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.” — read the full passage →

Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah. — read the full passage →

Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it!”

The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous. — read the full passage →

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

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

But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, — read the full passage →

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do? — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. — read the full passage →

“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.” — read the full passage →

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves, — read the full passage →

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” — read the full passage →

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah. — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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.

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

Paul, having stayed after this many more days, took his leave of the brothers, and sailed from there for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head in Cenchreae, for he had a vow.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

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

On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. — read the full passage →

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles. — read the full passage →