Being Helpful

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

We love him, because he first loved us.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; — read the full passage →

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. — read the full passage →

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly; — read the full passage →

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith. — read the full passage →

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom. — read the full passage →

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

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.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

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

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

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.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; — read the full passage →

“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

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.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son. — read the full passage →

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. — read the full passage →

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas greet you.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;

Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, — read the full passage →

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

whenever I journey to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating. — read the full passage →

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” — read the full passage →

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →