Desperation

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

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

For thus says Yahweh, 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 up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless 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 sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. — read the full passage →

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

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

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, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.

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

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

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

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who 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 chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. — 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 →

This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you. — read the full passage →

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?” — read the full passage →

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

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it. — read the full passage →

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. — read the full passage →

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”

It will happen that as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you. You will be plucked from off of the land where you go in to possess it. — read the full passage →

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

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

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

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

Now I beg you, brothers (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints),

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don’t preach the Good News. — read the full passage →

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. — read the full passage →

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

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my 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),

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 has in you.

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

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

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers 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? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, 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 for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;

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

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess; — read the full passage →

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy. — read the full passage →

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

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

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

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

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.