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I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

but I--I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

`Happy the peacemakers--because they shall be called Sons of God.

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

A gracious woman retaineth honour, And terrible <FI>men<Fi> retain riches.

`And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed; — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, — read the full passage →

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil, — read the full passage →

I have known a man in Christ, fourteen years ago--whether in the body I have not known, whether out of the body I have not known, God hath known--such an one being caught away unto the third heaven;

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;

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain; — read the full passage →

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

To the Overseer. --By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, `They moved <FI>to<Fi> Thy mountain for the bird? — read the full passage →

I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

and the long-suffering of our Lord count ye salvation, according as also our beloved brother Paul--according to the wisdom given to him--did write to you, — read the full passage →

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;

Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead--

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, — read the full passage →

and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish--to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.'

and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls--according to their works; — 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,

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.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid all round about with gold, in which <FI>is<Fi> the golden pot having the manna, and the rod of Aaron that budded, and the tables of the covenant,

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

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

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; — read the full passage →

for those such <FI>are<Fi> false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us--to reach even unto you; — read the full passage →

and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested,

for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God--unknown; whom, therefore--not knowing--ye do worship, this One I announce to you. — read the full passage →

and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, `Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord--how they are.' — read the full passage →

wherefore also in another <FI>place<Fi> he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption, — read the full passage →

`This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest,

`It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, — read the full passage →

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

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.'

And Thomas, one of the twelve, who is called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came; — read the full passage →

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

`And now I have said <FI>it<Fi> to you before it come to pass, that when it may come to pass, ye may believe;

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,) — read the full passage →

And when his brethren went up, then also he himself went up to the feast, not manifestly, but as in secret;

for not even were his brethren believing in him.

his brethren, therefore, said unto him, `Remove hence, and go away to Judea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou dost;

for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.' — read the full passage →

after this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples; and there they remained not many days.

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

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

and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

And there came unto him his mother and brethren, and they were not able to get to him because of the multitude, — read the full passage →

but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

And having risen out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon, and the mother-in-law of Simon was pressed with a great fever, and they did ask him about her, — read the full passage →

and he shall reign over the house of Jacob to the ages; and of his reign there shall be no end.'

and as they are reclining, and eating, Jesus said, `Verily I say to you--one of you, who is eating with me--shall deliver me up.' — read the full passage →

Then come do his brethren and mother, and standing without, they sent unto him, calling him, — read the full passage →

And immediately, having come forth out of the synagogue, they went to the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John, — read the full passage →

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

and having been gathered together with the elders, counsel also having taken, they gave much money to the soldiers, — read the full passage →

and ye may not call <FI>any<Fi> your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? — read the full passage →

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not. — read the full passage →

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

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins; — read the full passage →

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry; — read the full passage →

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

`If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true; — read the full passage →

for neither doth the Father judge any one, but all the judgment He hath given to the Son, — read the full passage →

and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.

And when the hour come, he reclined (at meat), and the twelve apostles with him, — read the full passage →

`And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known--not even the messengers of the heavens--except my Father only;

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, — 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 →

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

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

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

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant; — read the full passage →

But those expecting Jehovah pass <FI>to<Fi> power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, — read the full passage →