Being Separate

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

“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.

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

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

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.

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

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.

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

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

John testified, saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. — read the full passage →

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, — read the full passage →

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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.

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.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.” — read the full passage →

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today have I become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?” — read the full passage →

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; — read the full passage →

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

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.

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, — read the full passage →

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, — read the full passage →

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

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;

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;

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

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

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

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.

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 →

“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. — read the full passage →

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

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!”

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” — read the full passage →

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

If you love me, keep my commandments. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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.

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ).

I didn’t recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, ‘On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.’

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

They worshiped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Jesus answering, said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened, — read the full passage →

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. — read the full passage →

“When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),

“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. — read the full passage →

“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me,Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. — read the full passage →

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.