Building Monuments

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

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

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are. — read the full passage →

for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

in whom all the building fitly framed together doth increase to an holy sanctuary in the Lord,

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-<FI> stone<Fi> ,

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands--age-during--in the heavens,

`Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock; — read the full passage →

And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?

And the house, in its being built, of perfect stone brought <FI>thither<Fi> hath been built, and hammer, and the axe--any instrument of iron--was not heard in the house, in its being built.

And Absalom hath taken, and setteth up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that <FI>is<Fi> in the king's valley, for he said, `I have no son to cause my name to be remembered;' and he calleth the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called `The monument of Absalom' unto this day.

and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

`Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

let no one seek his own--but each another's.

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,

to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

she runneth, therefore, and cometh unto Simon Peter, and unto the other disciple whom Jesus was loving, and saith to them, `They took away the Lord out of the tomb, and we have not known where they laid him.'

And on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene doth come early (there being yet darkness) to the tomb, and she seeth the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,

Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

and all the people were coming unto him, and having sat down, he was teaching them;

and there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-<FI> gate<Fi> a pool that is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches,

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

and they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb,

forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

and early in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, they come unto the sepulchre, at the rising of the sun,

`And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

And when he is sitting on the mount of the Olives, the disciples came near to him by himself, saying, `Tell us, when shall these be? and what <FI>is<Fi> the sign of thy presence, and of the full end of the age?'

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

`Happy the clean in heart--because they shall see God.

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.

Days of our years, in them <FI>are<Fi> seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet <FI>is<Fi> their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

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.

And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man--to the age; in their erring they <FI>are<Fi> flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,

and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,'

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: — read the full passage →

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age;

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

and five of them were prudent, and five foolish;

nor by the earth, because it is His footstool, nor by Jerusalem, because it is a city of a great king,

And those passing by have passed through the land, and seen a bone of man, and one hath constructed near it a sign till those burying have buried it in the valley of the multitude of Gog.

Their heart <FI>is<Fi> : Their houses <FI>are<Fi> to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

let it not be! we who died to the sin--how shall we still live in it?

and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it sat also upon each one of them,

till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,

Jesus answered, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;

and Jesus said to them, `Do ye not see all these? verily I say to you, There may not be left here a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'

for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.

and having opened his mouth, he was teaching them, saying:

`Son of man, set thy face unto Gog, of the land of Magog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy concerning him,

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked. — read the full passage →

And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

And God seeth the light that <FI>it is<Fi> good, and God separateth between the light and the darkness,

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

but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;

Then come unto Jesus do they from Jerusalem--scribes and Pharisees--saying, — read the full passage →

`This month <FI>is<Fi> to you the chief of months--it <FI>is<Fi> the first to you of the months of the year; — read the full passage →

And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth;

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'

every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

`Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Every one who is coming unto me, and is hearing my words, and is doing them, I will shew you to whom he is like; — read the full passage →

and certain of the Pharisees said to them, `Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbaths?'

and he was saying to them in his teaching, `Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places, — read the full passage →

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness;

And when he came down from the mount, great multitudes did follow him, — read the full passage →