Celebrating Halloween

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. — read the full passage →

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,

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. — read the full passage →

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:

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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.”

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

neither give place to the devil.

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus, — read the full passage →

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

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. — read the full passage →

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one, — read the full passage →

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake. — read the full passage →

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. — read the full passage →

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. — read the full passage →

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” — read the full passage →

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen. — read the full passage →

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. — read the full passage →

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, — read the full passage →

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

Many of those who practiced magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. They counted their price, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven. — read the full passage →

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. — read the full passage →

They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. — read the full passage →

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

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. — read the full passage →