Being Single

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

For when they will rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. — read the full passage →

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

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

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. — read the full passage →

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. — read the full passage →

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him. — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven. — read the full passage →

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life. — read the full passage →

“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’ — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. — read the full passage →

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power. — read the full passage →

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?” — read the full passage →

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded; — read the full passage →

John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven. — read the full passage →

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 scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?” — read the full passage →

I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns! — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another. — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News, — read the full passage →

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ — read the full passage →

For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. — read the full passage →

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace. — read the full passage →

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. — read the full passage →

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. — read the full passage →

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. — read the full passage →

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, — read the full passage →

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching. — read the full passage →

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. — read the full passage →

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you. — read the full passage →

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →