Consistency

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

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

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, — read the full passage →

but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.

Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

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

and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

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

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; — read the full passage →

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire--in nothing lacking;

may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful <FI>is<Fi> He who did promise),

Thou hast faith! to thyself have <FI>it<Fi> before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men, — read the full passage →

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

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;

and His word ye have not remaining in you, because whom He sent, him ye do not believe.

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.

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

and the things that thou didst hear from me through many witnesses, these things be committing to stedfast men, who shall be sufficient also others to teach;

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation; — read the full passage →

in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath, — read the full passage →

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

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, — read the full passage →

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith--considering the issue of the behaviour--be imitating,

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.

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,

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?

and he with an oath through Him who is saying unto him, `The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou <FI>art<Fi> a priest--to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;')

and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people; — read the full passage →

and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham--

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him; — read the full passage →

that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived;

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,

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

that through two immutable things, in which <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before <FI>us<Fi> ,

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

So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience,

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 →

who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching; — read the full passage →

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;' — read the full passage →

Then, after fourteen years again I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, having taken with me also Titus; — read the full passage →

to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

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