Determination

have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain; — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

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 →

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

and the truth shall make you free.'

and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or--I do speak from myself.

in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell, — read the full passage →

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

And Jesus answering said to them, `Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

`He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,

he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard--to that day.

and to God--thanks, to Him who is giving us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ;

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me; — read the full passage →

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles; — read the full passage →

because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

`And now, lo, I--bound in the Spirit--go on to Jerusalem, the things that shall befall me in it not knowing, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'

being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God--living and remaining--to the age;

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

And it came to pass, in the completing of the days of his being taken up, that he fixed his face to go on to Jerusalem,

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

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;

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

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;

`The sower went forth to sow his seed, and in his sowing some indeed fell beside the way, and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the heaven did devour it. — read the full passage →

if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you--that of the Lord they are commands;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint, — read the full passage →

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

And having entered, he was passing through Jericho, — read the full passage →

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

And having risen thence, he doth come to the coasts of Judea, through the other side of the Jordan, and again do multitudes come together unto him, and, as he had been accustomed, again he was teaching them. — read the full passage →

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, in his coming nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting beside the way begging, — read the full passage →

And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,