Desperation

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

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 torment. 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 communications corrupt good manners.

For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at 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 were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was 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 by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy. — read the full passage →

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

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

For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth 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, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. — read the full passage →

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

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as 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 acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that. — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, 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 the Lord’s passover.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: — read the full passage →

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. — read the full passage →

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

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

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. — read the full passage →

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any 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 are honourable, but we are despised.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

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

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

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

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

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

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, 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 be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

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

But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. — read the full passage →

To deliver such an 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 instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten 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 of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.

Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.

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

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Have we not power to eat and to drink? — read the full passage →

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

But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

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

As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

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

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

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

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

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

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. — read the full passage →

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

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

For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

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

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

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

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 mankind, — read the full passage →

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 mankind,

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

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

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.