Crushes

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; Buta woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden. — read the full passage →

And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit unto the measure of his life? — read the full passage →

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth. — read the full passage →

I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

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

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, 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 for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; 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 thy 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 his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall.

Whom have I in heavenbut thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. — read the full passage →

Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart. — read the full passage →

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? or am I striving to please men? if I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove 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.

But now thus saith Jehovah 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.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; — read the full passage →

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

A gift in secret pacifieth anger; And a present in the bosom, strong wrath.

Counsel in the heart of man islikedeep water; But a man of understanding will draw it out. — read the full passage →

It is not good to eat much honey; Sofor mento search out their own glory is grievous.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity. — read the full passage →

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

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

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; 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 in the wife of thy youth.

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

but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, Andwhichentered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all 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 to the land of the children of the east. — read the full passage →

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; But it is an 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 permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness. — read the full passage →

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

How beautiful are thy feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! Thy rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skilful workman. — read the full passage →

The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. — 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 Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. — read the full passage →

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

not a novice, lest being puffed up 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 angels in heaven. — read the full passage →

And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:

Now faith is assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction 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 knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his 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 that are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned: and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth. — read the full passage →

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

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

A man’s belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied. — 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 Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme. — read the full passage →

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

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, 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 →

Jehovah 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 of the captivity, 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 favor of Jehovah.