Blind Faith

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

Jesus saith to him, `Because thou hast seen me, Thomas, thou hast believed; happy those not having seen, and having believed.'

The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen <FI>are<Fi> temporary, but the things not seen <FI>are<Fi> age-during.

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

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

for through faith we walk, not through sight--

And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth, — read the full passage →

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, `And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

believe me, that I <FI>am<Fi> in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.

till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up, — read the full passage →

And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye--to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye--to see, and ye do not know. — read the full passage →

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,

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

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

and saying--`Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'

`I say to you, that so joy shall be in the heaven over one sinner reforming, rather than over ninety-nine righteous men, who have no need of reformation.

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

let them alone, guides they are--blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'

I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> , ye shall die in your sins.'

And Jesus said to him, `If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

to open their eyes, to turn <FI>them<Fi> from darkness to light, and <FI>from<Fi> the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that <FI>is<Fi> toward me.

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

and Israel seeth the great hand with which Jehovah hath wrought against the Egyptians, and the people fear Jehovah, and remain stedfast in Jehovah, and in Moses His servant.

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,

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say--We see, therefore doth your sin remain.

The soul that doth sin--it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — 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,

in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling; — read the full passage →

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

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

And the disciples having come near, said to him, `Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?' — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?

`Verily, verily, I say to you--He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

and their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became unseen by them.

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — 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;

The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,

the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, `Is not this he who is sitting and begging?'

And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them,

Then was brought to him a demoniac, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so that the blind and dumb both spake and saw.

and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, `I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.'

And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?'

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

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

wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus <FI>is<Fi> anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus <FI>is<Fi> Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! -- — read the full passage →

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

yes, also of nations; since one <FI>is<Fi> God who shall declare righteous the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through the faith.

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest <FI>it<Fi> to them, — read the full passage →

and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

so also the faith, if it may not have works, is dead by itself.

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,

and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

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.

And Moses answereth and saith, `And, if they do not give credence to me, nor hearken to my voice, and say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto thee?' — read the full passage →

because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith;

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

`This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;

and Jesus said to him, `Go, thy faith hath saved thee:' and immediately he saw again, and was following Jesus in the way.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

Desist, and know that I <FI>am<Fi> God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.