Crushes

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

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

Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height? — read the full passage →

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

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

throwing 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;

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you. — read the full passage →

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart. — read the full passage →

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

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

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

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

A gift in secret pacifies anger; and a bribe in the cloak, 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; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity. — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

Woe,whenmen speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him. — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who 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 is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them. — read the full passage →

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring. — 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 →

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil. — read the full passage →

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

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness. — read the full passage →

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

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman. — read the full passage →

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. — read the full passage →

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone 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 like God’s angels in heaven. — read the full passage →

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof 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 chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. — read the full passage →

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from 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 stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! — read the full passage →

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 →

‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you. — read the full passage →

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

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.