Being Bitter

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

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—

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

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.

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.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. — read the full passage →

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

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

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.”

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

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.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.