Contingency

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. — read the full passage →

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

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

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. — read the full passage →

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us,

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; — read the full passage →

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

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. — read the full passage →

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

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

I and the Father are one.”

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

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

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

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.’”

Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”

When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? — read the full passage →

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers. — read the full passage →

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.