Celebrating Christmas

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

because there was born to you to-day a Saviour--who is Christ the Lord--in the city of David,

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift!

and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

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;

and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this--the life--is in His Son;

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

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,

whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered <FI>him<Fi> to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.

this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

`Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do--that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father; — read the full passage →

but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him; — read the full passage →

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

And lo, one having come near, said to him, `Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?' — read the full passage →

for to me to live <FI>is<Fi> Christ, and to die gain. — read the full passage →

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, — read the full passage →

I give thanks to my God, always making mention of thee in my prayers, — read the full passage →

`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;

of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers; — read the full passage →

For such a chief priest did become us--kind, harmless, undefiled, separate from the sinners, and become higher than the heavens, — read the full passage →

and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham-- — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

`But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you; — read the full passage →

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail <FI>doth<Fi> her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so; — read the full passage →

And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: `Happy the poor--because yours is the reign of God. — read the full passage →

After these things did Jesus manifest himself again to the disciples on the sea of Tiberias, and he did manifest himself thus: — read the full passage →

`And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them, — 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, — read the full passage →

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him; — read the full passage →

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

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 →

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: -- — read the full passage →

because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news, — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry; — read the full passage →

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; — read the full passage →

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man, — read the full passage →

After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee (of Tiberias), — read the full passage →

And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him, — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.' — read the full passage →

lo, I give to you the authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means shall hurt you; — read the full passage →

Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us, — read the full passage →

And gathered together unto him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

`Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens. — read the full passage →

Because of this I say to you, all sin and evil speaking shall be forgiven to men, but the evil speaking of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. — read the full passage →

`Ye may not, therefore, fear them, for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed, and hid, that shall not be known; — read the full passage →

A roll of the birth of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. — 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, — read the full passage →