Crushes

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit? — read the full passage →

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth, — read the full passage →

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon; — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this <FI>is<Fi> the first command;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity; — read the full passage →

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; — read the full passage →

`Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you--for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness, — read the full passage →

for if any one doth think <FI>himself<Fi> to be something--being nothing--himself he doth deceive; — read the full passage →

Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you; — read the full passage →

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; — read the full passage →

for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven. — read the full passage →

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety, — read the full passage →

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ, — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; — read the full passage →

and he hath not root in himself, but is temporary, and persecution or tribulation having happened because of the word, immediately he is stumbled. — read the full passage →

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →