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“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does, — read the full passage →

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who 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 who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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

He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

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

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

There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed. — read the full passage →

Seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him who was oppressed, striking the Egyptian. — read the full passage →

Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”

Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?” — read the full passage →

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

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? — read the full passage →

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

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

They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like 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 drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. ’

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth’s grapes are fully ripe!”

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

It was given to him to give breath to it, to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause as many as wouldn’t worship the image of the beast to be killed.

The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals. — read the full passage →

But I have this against you, that you tolerate yourwoman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

His feet were like burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace. His voice was like the voice of many waters.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? — read the full passage →

Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?

or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus, our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

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

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

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

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

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit 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 compassion,

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

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; — read the full passage →

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

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

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

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

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

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

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

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

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

One of them named Agabus stood up, and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

He arose and went; and behold, there was 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 you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

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

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called ‘Akeldama,’ that is, ‘The field of blood.’

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” — read the full passage →

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.