Contentment On Earth

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

By David. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And all my inward parts--His Holy Name. — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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.

According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

honour thy father and mother,

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 →

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 answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things,

And he hath turned back the heart of fathers to sons, And the heart of sons to their fathers, Before I come and have utterly smitten the land!

Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'

Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

receive, I pray thee, my blessing, which is brought to thee, because God hath favoured me, and because I have all <FI>things<Fi> ;' and he presseth on him, and he receiveth,

Words of Amos--who hath been among herdsmen of Tekoa--that he hath seen concerning Israel, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the shaking; — read the full passage →

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and anger.

The tongue of the wise maketh knowledge good, And the mouth of fools uttereth folly.

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy <FI>art<Fi> thou, and good <FI>is<Fi> to thee.

A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways.

And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

And the man calleth names to all the cattle, and to fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; and to man hath not been found an helper--as his counterpart.

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.