Being Unique

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

and of you--even the hairs of the head are all numbered;

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed, — 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.

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; — read the full passage →

for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and when God was well pleased--having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called <FI>me<Fi> through His grace--

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

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. — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy--`According to the proportion of faith!' — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and have known all things;

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, — read the full passage →

so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, <FI>is<Fi> with you all! Amen.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving <FI>it<Fi> .

As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness, — read the full passage →

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, — read the full passage →

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

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down--the Son of Man who is in the heaven.

or ministration--`In the ministration!' or he who is teaching--`In the teaching!'

Peter having seen this one, saith to Jesus, `Lord, and what of this one?' — read the full passage →

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

and if all were one member, where the body?

And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy--`According to the proportion of faith!'

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

I in them, and Thou in me, that they may be perfected into one, and that the world may know that Thou didst send me, and didst love them as Thou didst love me.

Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel--and these things thou dost not know!

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

`Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father; — read the full passage →

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →