Consistency

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, — read the full passage →

But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. — read the full passage →

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; — read the full passage →

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

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

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. — read the full passage →

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: — read the full passage →

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)

And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. — read the full passage →

Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. — read the full passage →

That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; — read the full passage →

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. — read the full passage →

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. — read the full passage →

Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. — read the full passage →

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.