Building Monuments

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 →

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.

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

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building. — read the full passage →

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

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.

I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. — read the full passage →

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king’s dale; for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

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

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

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.

Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

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

He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

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.”

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. — read the full passage →

They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall beyour servant.

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. — read the full passage →

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like. — read the full passage →

But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. — read the full passage →