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Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: — read the full passage →

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; — read the full passage →

For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against himself, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. — read the full passage →

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

A certain lender had two debtors: the one owed five hundred shillings, and the other fifty. — read the full passage →

And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, evenJesus;

well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints’ feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had kept his bed eight years; for he was palsied. — read the full passage →

And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian: — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.

Were there none found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger? — read the full passage →

and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table; yea, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? — read the full passage →

In the mean time, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

They are like unto children that sit in the marketplace, and call one to another; who say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep.

For I also am a man set under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: — read the full passage →

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works.

and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn.

And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.

And another angel came out from the altar, he that hath power over fire; and he called with a great voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having eternal good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

And it was given unto him to give breath to it, even to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;

And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the back, close sealed with seven seals. — read the full passage →

But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like unto burnished brass:

and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen. — read the full passage →

And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?

or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.

One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.

But one hath somewhere testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.

whom I have sent back to thee in his own person, that is, my very heart:

For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in thy house:

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, — read the full passage →

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

and that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own affections.

we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; — read the full passage →

But I determined this for myself, that I would not come again to you with sorrow.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

for this cause ought the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things. — read the full passage →

And they all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things.

And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

And yet he left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.

Now he was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: and they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was fed from the king’s country.

And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.

The word which he sent unto the children of Israel, preaching good tidings of peace by Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all)—

And the men that journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but beholding no man.

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.

And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship;

For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.

But of the rest durst no man join himself to them: howbeit the people magnified them;

But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,

whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

And it became known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch that in their language that field was called Akeldama, that is, The field of blood.)

So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. — read the full passage →

Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.