Boundary

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

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

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail; though they roar, yet they can’t pass over it.’

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. — read the full passage →

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For each man will bear his own burden.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

Behold, I have set before you this day life and prosperity, and death and evil. — read the full passage →

I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

Don’t quench the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. — read the full passage →

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

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

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. — read the full passage →

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly. — read the full passage →

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck. — read the full passage →

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. — read the full passage →

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’ — read the full passage →

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

I will encamp against you all around you, and will lay siege against you with posted troops. I will raise siege works against you.

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.

Don’t move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice? — read the full passage →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple. — read the full passage →

The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.