Crushes

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Open rebuke is better than secret love. — read the full passage →

And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? — read the full passage →

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. — read the full passage →

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. — read the full passage →

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. — read the full passage →

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. — read the full passage →

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. — read the full passage →

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; — read the full passage →

But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. — read the full passage →

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. — read the full passage →

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; — read the full passage →

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. — read the full passage →

Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. — read the full passage →

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. — read the full passage →

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil. — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. — read the full passage →

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. — read the full passage →

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. — read the full passage →

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord. — read the full passage →

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. — read the full passage →

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. — read the full passage →

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. — read the full passage →

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. — read the full passage →

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

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

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. — read the full passage →

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. — read the full passage →

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. — read the full passage →

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. — read the full passage →

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul. — read the full passage →

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: — read the full passage →

Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon; — read the full passage →

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.