Difficulty

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

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.

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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. — read the full passage →

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

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

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, — read the full passage →

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. — read the full passage →

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — 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 →

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble. — read the full passage →

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. — read the full passage →

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, limasabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from your midst, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

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

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. — read the full passage →

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ? — read the full passage →