Christian Hedonism

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

Not that we control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, — read the full passage →

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Yes most certainly, 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 count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you 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.’”

Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.

Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

By faith, Moses, when he had 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, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

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

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

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

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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

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

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof 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 assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

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.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. — read the full passage →

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,and follow me.

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Yahweh’s word 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 who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.