Desperation

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. — read the full passage →

Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

For thus saith Jehovah, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. — read the full passage →

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;

holding forth the word of life; that I may have whereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain neither labor in vain.

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

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; — read the full passage →

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. — read the full passage →

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;

For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through revelation of Jesus Christ.

and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it.

Attend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. — read the full passage →

O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; so do I now.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that. — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is Jehovah’s passover.

I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel; — read the full passage →

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.

But we will not glory beyond our measure, but according to the measure of the province which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even unto you. — read the full passage →

But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come? — read the full passage →

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. — read the full passage →

Wast thou called being a bondservant? care not for it: nay, even if thou canst become free, use it rather. — read the full passage →

Was any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Hath any been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. — read the full passage →

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.

Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou art my God.

And it shall come to pass, that, as Jehovah rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Jehovah will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it. — read the full passage →

Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; — read the full passage →

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that, if ye receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. — read the full passage →

For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that are such.

Now I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),

But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

Then cometh the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel. — read the full passage →

But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for it were good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel.

If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. — read the full passage →

to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath in you.

Else what shall they do that are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ’s, at his coming.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.

Have we no right to lead about a wife that is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Have we no right to eat and to drink? — read the full passage →

Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.

For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;

Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.

and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not; — read the full passage →

But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy. — read the full passage →

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her. — read the full passage →

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. — read the full passage →

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.