Being Deceitful

Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?

he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment <FI>is<Fi> as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;

but exhort ye one another every day, while the To-day is called, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of the sin,

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

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 if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast <FI>them<Fi> down to Tartarus, did deliver <FI>them<Fi> to judgment, having been reserved,

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created, — read the full passage →

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me; — read the full passage →

and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.' — read the full passage →

and he saith to them, `I am <FI>he<Fi> , be not afraid;'

and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years, — read the full passage →

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking, — read the full passage →

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you--anathema let him be! — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we--we shall be changed:

`And take ye heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims, and to synagogues, ye shall be beaten, and before governors and kings ye shall be set for my sake, for a testimony to them;

and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'

`The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become <FI>those<Fi> of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;

`I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming--the Almighty.'

messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, — read the full passage →

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

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.

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

yet to us <FI>is<Fi> one God, the Father, of whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and we through Him;

and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, `There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,

And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

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

according as it hath been written--`There is none righteous, not even one;

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,

`For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said--A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you;

and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it, — read the full passage →

`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?' — read the full passage →

ye heard that I said to you--I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said--I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

`From this time I tell you, before its coming to pass, that, when it may come to pass, ye may believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> ;

verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;

Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods? — read the full passage →

The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'

Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him; — read the full passage →

I and the Father are one.' — read the full passage →

my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish--to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand; — read the full passage →

and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,

others said--`This is he;' and others--`He is like to him;' he himself said, --`I am <FI>he<Fi> .'

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am <FI>he<Fi> ; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> , ye shall die in your sins.'

and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true; — read the full passage →

`But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me. — read the full passage →

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;' — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

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.

God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father--he did declare.

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

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

and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,

`And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — read the full passage →

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices; — read the full passage →

and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

`When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth;

and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, `What--to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!'

and he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying.

And when eight days were fulfilled to circumcise the child, then was his name called Jesus, having been so called by the messenger before his being conceived in the womb.

because there was born to you to-day a Saviour--who is Christ the Lord--in the city of David,

And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?' — read the full passage →

and at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, `Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabachthani?' which is, being interpreted, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'

and Jesus answered him--`The first of all the commands <FI>is<Fi> , Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one;