Being Small

And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; — read the full passage →

I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel; — read the full passage →

Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and withal of a fair countenance. — read the full passage →

and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God.

And when they found them not, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

and salute the church that is in their house. Salute Epænetus my beloved, who is the firstfruits of Asia unto Christ.

because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles.

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

And he entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

But thou hast a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments: and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.

saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send it to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne;

Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.

Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

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

And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;

to Titus, my true child after a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

and they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him unto his will.

in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

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

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. — read the full passage →

which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I resisted him to the face, because he stood condemned. — read the full passage →

As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.

and all the brethren that are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →

But now they are many members, but one body.

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

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

unto the church of God which is at Corinth, eventhem that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, calledto besaints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirLordand ours:

God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel: — read the full passage →

So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:

and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

who will render to every man according to his works: — read the full passage →

But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against. — read the full passage →

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on his name.

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

And he entered into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, reasoning and persuading as to the things concerning the kingdom of God.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus; and he was mighty in the scriptures. — read the full passage →

After these things he departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. — read the full passage →

But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue calledthe synagogueof the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord;

praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spake forth unto them, saying, Ye men of Judæa, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and give ear unto my words. — read the full passage →

that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.

Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him. — read the full passage →

There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples; — read the full passage →

The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: — read the full passage →

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him, — read the full passage →