Bravery

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

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

And David saith to Solomon his son, `Be strong, and courageous, and do; do not fear nor be affrighted, for Jehovah God, my God, <FI>is<Fi> with thee; He doth not fail thee, nor forsake thee, unto the completion of all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah.

be strong and courageous, fear not, nor be terrified because of them, for Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> He who is going with thee; He doth not fail thee nor forsake thee.'

`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.'

and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;

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

The Lord Jesus Christ <FI>is<Fi> with thy spirit; the grace <FI>is<Fi> with you! Amen.

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable, — read the full passage →

and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;

For He hath known the way with me, He hath tried me--as gold I go forth.

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, — read the full passage →

Be strong, and He strengtheneth your heart, All ye who are waiting for Jehovah!

The wicked have fled and there is no pursuer. And the righteous as a young lion is confident.

Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

A Psalm of David. Ascribe to Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty, Ascribe to Jehovah honour and strength. — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

The day I am afraid I am confident toward Thee. — read the full passage →

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

For I, Jehovah thy God, Am strengthening thy right hand, He who is saying to thee, `Fear not, I have helped thee.'

Look unto Jehovah--be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

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.

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

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 →

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

And Jesus immediately, having heard the word that is spoken, saith to the chief of the synagogue, `Be not afraid, only believe.'

Also--when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> with me, Thy rod and Thy staff--they comfort me.

Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

And desolate cities they cause to be inhabited. Fear not, for thou art not ashamed, Nor blush, for thou art not confounded, For the shame of thy youth thou forgettest, And the reproach of thy widowhood Thou dost not remember any more.

be strong and strengthen thyself for our people, and for the cities of our God, and Jehovah doth that which is good in His eyes.'

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

By David. Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah my rock, who is teaching My hands for war, my fingers for battle.

By David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

and we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the good news <FI>is<Fi> through all the assemblies, — read the full passage →

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them--to the end!

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith. — read the full passage →

for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we--we have the mind of Christ.

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and <FI>in<Fi> worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, — read the full passage →

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants; — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

And after the ceasing of the tumult, Paul having called near the disciples, and having embraced <FI>them<Fi> , went forth to go on to Macedonia; — read the full passage →

and he being minded to go through into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, did help them much who have believed through the grace, — read the full passage →

and immediately Jesus spake to them, saying, `Be of good courage, I am <FI>he<Fi> , be not afraid.'

The fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> to life, And satisfied he remaineth--he is not charged with evil. — read the full passage →

and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: `Do not think in thy soul to be delivered <FI>in<Fi> the house of the king, more than all the Jews, — read the full passage →

be strong and courageous, for thou--thou dost cause this people to inherit the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them.

`And lo, I <FI>am<Fi> with thee, and have kept thee whithersoever thou goest, and have caused thee to turn back unto this ground; for I leave thee not till that I have surely done that which I have spoken to thee.'

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,' — read the full passage →

And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets, — read the full passage →

and ye--ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created, — read the full passage →

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech, — read the full passage →

And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves--

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption; — read the full passage →

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God, — read the full passage →

And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become--

And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus,

who did give himself a ransom for all--the testimony in its own times-- — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope, — read the full passage →

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead--Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.

and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority, — read the full passage →

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, — read the full passage →

for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain; — read the full passage →

but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--' — read the full passage →

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God, — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto God,

and again, Isaiah saith, `There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations--upon him shall nations hope;'

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

`Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

and there was sitting a certain youth, by name Eutychus, upon the window--being borne down by a deep sleep, Paul discoursing long--he having sunk down from the sleep, fell down from the third story, and was lifted up dead. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples, — read the full passage →

And a certain Jew, Apollos by name, an Alexandrian by birth, a man of eloquence, being mighty in the Writings, came to Ephesus, — read the full passage →

And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom, — read the full passage →

saying in a great voice, `Fear ye God, and give to Him glory, because come did the hour of His judgment, and bow ye before Him who did make the heaven, and the land, and sea, and fountains of waters.' — 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 →

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety,

and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith; — read the full passage →

but Paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks, and having laid <FI>them<Fi> upon the fire, a viper--out of the heat having come--did fasten on his hand. — read the full passage →

so powerfully was the word of God increasing and prevailing. — read the full passage →

and having brought them, they set <FI>them<Fi> in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them, — read the full passage →