Being Meek

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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

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 whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Now the man Moses was very humble, above all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps, — read the full passage →

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

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.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.”

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

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.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

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 →

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 →

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

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.

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. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

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—

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered. — read the full passage →

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. — read the full passage →

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. — 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 →

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

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, — read the full passage →

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,