Defiance

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention; — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ. — read the full passage →

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”

David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat. — read the full passage →

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

“‘When you shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Yahweh has spoken to Moses, — read the full passage →

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.

Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.” — read the full passage →

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →