Being Meek

`Happy the meek--because they shall inherit the land.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

`Happy the poor in spirit--because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness--because they shall be filled.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night;

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting--the redemption of our body;

`Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

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;

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

`Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.

And the man Moses <FI>is<Fi> very humble, more than any of the men who <FI>are<Fi> on the face of the ground.

And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps, — read the full passage →

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, — read the full passage →

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.'

He who is overcoming--I will give to him to sit with me in my throne, as I also did overcome and did sit down with my Father in His throne.

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ--

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying,

He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?

And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ--this one is not His;

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

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 →

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

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;

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

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.

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, — read the full passage →

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

My tongue doth sing of Thy saying, For all Thy commands <FI>are<Fi> righteous.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

Happy and holy <FI>is<Fi> he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

And after these things I saw four messengers, standing upon the four corners of the land, holding the four winds of the land, that the wind may not blow upon the land, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree; — read the full passage →

I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty--yet thou art rich--and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but <FI>are<Fi> a synagogue of the Adversary.

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

Ye--of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who <FI>is<Fi> in you, than he who is in the world.

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

and with blood almost all things are purified according to the law, and apart from blood-shedding forgiveness doth not come.

through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience, — read the full passage →

May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

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

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, — read the full passage →

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands, — read the full passage →

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of; — read the full passage →

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

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail <FI>doth<Fi> her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

to whom God did will to make known what <FI>is<Fi> the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations--which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

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

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might; — read the full passage →

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,