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“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

He isn’t greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

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

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 →

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.

Mercy to you and peace and love be multiplied.

For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed. — read the full passage →

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

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 the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

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.

Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

The same was in the beginning with God.

But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”

Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

and they shall make themselves bald for you, and clothe them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!” — read the full passage →

He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;

He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads; — read the full passage →

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. — read the full passage →

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved. — read the full passage →

But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.

She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones. There came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

and the spice, and the oil for the light, for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →