Dedication

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

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

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

And when the days of their purification were fulfilled, according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present to the Lord,

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

and having taken them in his arms, having put <FI>his<Fi> hands upon them, he was blessing them.

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

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;

and the child grew and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but--to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering <FI>is<Fi> whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed <FI>is<Fi> abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.

whence not even the first apart from blood hath been initiated,

of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

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;

And he said to them, `Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep; — read the full passage →

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,