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 →

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion. — 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.

For thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: — read the full passage →

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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.

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

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.”

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. — read the full passage →

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 →

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. — read the full passage →

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you. — read the full passage →

Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’ — read the full passage →

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children. — read the full passage →

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids. — 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 →

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. — read the full passage →

“‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty; — 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 →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.” — read the full passage →

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you shall surely die.”

He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”

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.

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

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 →

and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve. — read the full passage →

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

The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the seed royal and of the nobles; — 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 sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars; — read the full passage →

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men: — read the full passage →

If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey. — 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 →

You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity. — read the full passage →

Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit. — read the full passage →

Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure. — read the full passage →

I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. — read the full passage →

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →

David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against Yahweh’s anointed, and be guiltless?” — 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 →

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly. — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel. — read the full passage →

Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy out of their own heart, Hear Yahweh’s word: — read the full passage →

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it. — 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 →

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man. — read the full passage →

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun. — read the full passage →

“For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can’t bear up: — read the full passage →

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear? — read the full passage →

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous. — read the full passage →

Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their commandment. — 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 →

The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.” — read the full passage →

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. — read the full passage →

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” — 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 →

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’” — read the full passage →

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment? — 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 →

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

Out of the depths I have cried to you, Yahweh. — read the full passage →

For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good. — read the full passage →

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me. — read the full passage →

Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge. — read the full passage →