Christian Hedonism

Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.

Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Not that we have lordship over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for in faith ye stand fast.

For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, — read the full passage →

But godliness with contentment is great gain:

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye grieved; for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he hath understanding, and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah who exerciseth lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. ג GIMEL.

Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy; For thou wilt judge the peoples with equity, And govern the nations upon earth. [Selah

Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, ye righteous; And shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes.

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye know him who is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the evil one.

having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; — read the full passage →

Rejoice in the Lord always: again I will say, Rejoice.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day.

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple. — read the full passage →

The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

who being the effulgence of his glory, and the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; — read the full passage →

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.

and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.

But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them that take refuge in him.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; men that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Already ye are clean because of the word which I have spoken unto you.

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me.

And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.

And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. — read the full passage →

And he said unto all, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

He that pleadeth his cause first seemeth just; But his neighbor cometh and searcheth him out.

Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart.

I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself.

This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word hath quickened me.

And I shall walk at liberty; For I have sought thy precepts.

Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.

For he spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.