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and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain.

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear; — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son; — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

for powerfully the Jews he was refuting publicly, shewing through the Writings Jesus to be the Christ.

`And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,

The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny <FI>him<Fi> , he also shall deny us; — read the full passage →

according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus--I going on to Macedonia--that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

Because of this also, we--we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him; — read the full passage →

for many walk of whom many times I told you--and now also weeping tell--the enemies of the cross of the Christ! — read the full passage →

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory, — read the full passage →

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock, — read the full passage →

Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.

These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and <FI>in<Fi> the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

Into the centre is the lot cast, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> all its judgment!

And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren--then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner; — read the full passage →

Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea, — read the full passage →

and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him,

and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake; — read the full passage →

And the Sadducees come unto him, who say there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying, — read the full passage →

This their way <FI>is<Fi> folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

And a messenger of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, `Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,' --this is desert. — read the full passage →

And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom, — read the full passage →

Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

`And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain <FI>it<Fi> , and bear fruit in continuance.

and as many as may not receive you, nor hear you, going out thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony to them; verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom or Gomorrah in a day of judgment than for that city.'

In the ears of a fool speak not, For he treadeth on the wisdom of thy words. — read the full passage →

O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

And Haman taketh the clothing, and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and causeth him to ride in a broad place of the city, and calleth before him, `Thus it is done to the man in whose honour the king hath delighted.'

and they read in the book, in the law of God, explaining--so as to give the meaning, and they give understanding to the convocation.

And it is very displeasing to me when I have heard their cry and these words, — read the full passage →

And I proclaim there a fast, by the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a right way for us, and for our infants, and for all our substance, — read the full passage →

and all this assembly do know that not by sword and by spear doth Jehovah save, that the battle <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah's, and He hath given you into our hand.'

`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemy, and hast seen horse and chariot--a people more numerous than thou--thou art not afraid of them, for Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> with thee, who is bringing thee up out of the land of Egypt; — read the full passage →

and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in Egypt, and hast observed and done these statutes. — read the full passage →

and Moses speaketh before Jehovah, saying, `Lo, the sons of Israel have not hearkened unto me, and how doth Pharaoh hear me, and I of uncircumcised lips?' — read the full passage →

And Moses saith unto Jehovah, `O, my Lord, I <FI>am<Fi> not a man of words, either yesterday, or before, or since Thy speaking unto Thy servant, for I <FI>am<Fi> slow of mouth, and slow of tongue.' — read the full passage →

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

Is it not thus? My word <FI>is<Fi> as a fire, An affirmation of Jehovah. And as a hammer--it breaketh in pieces a rock. — read the full passage →

Therefore, thus said Jehovah: If thou turnest back, then I bring thee back, Before Me thou dost stand, And if thou bringest out the precious from the vile, As My mouth thou art! They--they turn back unto thee, And thou dost not turn back unto them. — read the full passage →

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing. — read the full passage →

Wiser <FI>is<Fi> the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven <FI>men<Fi> returning a reason. — read the full passage →

A maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow, <FI>Is<Fi> the man testifying against his neighbour a false testimony. — read the full passage →

Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not, — read the full passage →

For <FI>an object of<Fi> desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth. — read the full passage →

Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes, — read the full passage →

The fool--in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame. — read the full passage →

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit; — read the full passage →

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up; — read the full passage →

all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him, — read the full passage →

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, — read the full passage →

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up; — read the full passage →

`And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say, — read the full passage →

`And take ye heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims, and to synagogues, ye shall be beaten, and before governors and kings ye shall be set for my sake, for a testimony to them; — read the full passage →

because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him, — read the full passage →

And in his being accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not answer any thing, — read the full passage →

`And into whatever city or village ye may enter, inquire ye who in it is worthy, and there abide, till ye may go forth. — read the full passage →

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, come hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Jerusalem, and layeth siege against it; — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah--it <FI>is<Fi> the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar, — read the full passage →

All Thy commands <FI>are<Fi> faithfulness, <FI>With<Fi> falsehood they have pursued me, Help Thou me. — read the full passage →

Yea, I am as a man who heareth not, And in his mouth are no reproofs. — read the full passage →

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple, — read the full passage →

Did not the Cushim and the Lubim become a very great force for multitude, for chariot, and for horsemen? and in thy leaning on Jehovah He gave them into thy hand, — read the full passage →

`Jehovah giveth thee smitten before thine enemies; in one way thou goest out unto them, and in seven ways dost flee before them, and thou hast been for a trembling to all kingdoms of the earth; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `See, I have given thee a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron thy brother is thy prophet; — read the full passage →

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray, — read the full passage →

for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so; — read the full passage →

For the Lord Jehovah doth nothing, Except He hath revealed His counsel unto His servants the prophets. — read the full passage →

As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house <FI>are<Fi> they.' — read the full passage →

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre; — read the full passage →

and the greater part of the brethren in the Lord, having confidence by my bonds, are more abundantly bold--fearlessly to speak the word. — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment, — read the full passage →

Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this. — read the full passage →

A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him. — read the full passage →

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. — read the full passage →

And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, For I have trusted in Thy word. — read the full passage →

By David, in his changing his behaviour before Abimelech, and he driveth him away, and he goeth. I do bless Jehovah at all times, Continually His praise <FI>is<Fi> in my mouth. — read the full passage →

To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God. — read the full passage →

Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill, — read the full passage →

And the days are many, and the word of Jehovah hath been unto Elijah in the third year, saying, `Go, appear unto Ahab, and I give rain on the face of the ground;' — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass after the death of Moses, servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua son of Nun, minister of Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

`And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go in unto Pharaoh, for I have declared hard his heart, and the heart of his servants, so that I set these My signs in their midst, — read the full passage →