Being Vain

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.” — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. — read the full passage →

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

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

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus; — read the full passage →

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. — read the full passage →

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. ’

Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. — read the full passage →

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

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

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. — read the full passage →

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

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

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

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — 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.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

On that day Jesus went out of the house, and sat by the seaside. — read the full passage →

Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.