Boundary

A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants <FI>are<Fi> as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,

these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

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--

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not over.

A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

And the Philistines gather their camps to battle, and are gathered to Shochoh, which <FI>is<Fi> to Judah, and encamp between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim; — read the full passage →

that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which <FI>is<Fi> on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

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 →

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

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

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

for each one his own burden shall bear.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

For as he hath thought in his soul, so <FI>is<Fi> he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart <FI>is<Fi> not with thee.

In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance <FI>is<Fi> for me.

`See, I have set before thee to-day life and good, and death and evil, — read the full passage →

`And I have set thy border from the Red Sea, even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I give into your hand the inhabitants of the land, and thou hast cast them out from before thee;

Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!

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 →

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

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived;

The Spirit quench not; — read the full passage →

always rejoice ye; — read the full passage →

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

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;

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

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

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 →

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: — read the full passage →

so that the law, indeed, <FI>is<Fi> holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

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 →

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — read the full passage →

And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well; — read the full passage →

and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea. — read the full passage →

And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

and one of them, a lawyer, did question, tempting him, and saying, — read the full passage →

do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth? — read the full passage →

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens is perfect.

`Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth; — read the full passage →

but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment; — read the full passage →

And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man <FI>is<Fi> his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step.

And I encamped, O babbler, against thee, And I laid siege against thee--a camp. And I raised up against thee bulwarks.

And He hath lifted up an ensign to nations, And gathereth the driven away of Israel, And the scattered of Judah He assembleth, From the four wings of the earth.

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

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

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated <FI>with<Fi> thee, and have hated thee.

Remove not a border of olden times, That thy fathers have made.

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and anger.

A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.

The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

Whoso is short of temper doth folly, And a man of wicked devices is hated.

In His preparing the heavens I <FI>am<Fi> there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,

Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice? — read the full passage →

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

Covering himself <FI>with<Fi> light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

The law of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> stedfast, Making wise the simple, — read the full passage →

Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!