Being Small

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — 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,

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

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

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.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

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

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Greet the assembly that is in their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

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

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

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

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

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.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

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

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

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.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. — read the full passage →

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

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

As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

But now they are many members, but one body.

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

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, 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 you baptized into the name of Paul?

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

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel: — read the full passage →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

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

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.” — read the full passage →

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God 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.

He entered into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning the Kingdom of God.

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

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

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. — read the full passage →

But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

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

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words. — read the full passage →

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.” — read the full passage →

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

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. — read the full passage →

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

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

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

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 to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. — read the full passage →

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him, — read the full passage →