Being Small

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; — read the full passage →

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

and the Philistine looketh attentively, and seeth David, and despiseth him, for he was a youth, and ruddy, with a fair appearance. — read the full passage →

and not holding the head, from which all the body--through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together--may increase with the increase of God.

and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud--`These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

and there withstood them Elymas the magian--for so is his name interpreted--seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah--an ark being preparing--in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God--living and remaining--to the age;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

and the assembly at their house; salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

And having entered, he was passing through Jericho, — read the full passage →

`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

`I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that <FI>are<Fi> in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'

John to the seven assemblies that <FI>are<Fi> in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who is coming, and from the Seven Spirits that are before His throne,

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,

to Titus--true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

in meekness instructing those opposing--if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

for this <FI>is<Fi> right and acceptable before God our Saviour, — read the full passage →

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

who shall suffer justice--destruction age-during--from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace; — read the full passage →

which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, — read the full passage →

as we have said before, and now say again, If any one to you may proclaim good news different from what ye did receive--anathema let him be!

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you--anathema let him be!

and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

and now, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> many members, and one body;

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, — read the full passage →

Hath the Christ been divided? was Paul crucified for you? or to the name of Paul were ye baptized;

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place--both theirs and ours:

God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known--in Elijah--what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying, — read the full passage →

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

for with the heart doth <FI>one<Fi> believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and--were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

who shall render to each according to his works; — read the full passage →

and we think it good from thee to hear what thou dost think, for, indeed, concerning this sect it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against;' — read the full passage →

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God,

And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus, — read the full passage →

And after these things, Paul having departed out of Athens, came to Corinth,

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

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

and there arose certain of those of the synagogue, called of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia, and Asia, disputing with Stephen,

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings, — read the full passage →

that they all may be one, as Thou Father <FI>art<Fi> in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me;

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.' — read the full passage →

Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words, — read the full passage →

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, — read the full passage →

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

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

and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

`Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division; — read the full passage →

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

In that day there came near to him Sadducees, who are saying there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying, — read the full passage →