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and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

And there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them, — read the full passage →

and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

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,

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard--to that day.

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

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

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, <FI>son<Fi> of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' — read the full passage →

and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth--

how that God was in Christ--a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

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 →

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;

`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.

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

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.

and Jesus himself was not trusting himself to them, because of his knowing all <FI>men<Fi> ,

remember the wife of Lot.

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

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,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

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;

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

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

and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and--were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

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

which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings--

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, — read the full passage →

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

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

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple; — read the full passage →

and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her; — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;

`Happy the meek--because they shall inherit the land.