Distractions

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

And it came to pass, in their going on, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman, by name Martha, did receive him into her house, — read the full passage →

In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.

And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon. — read the full passage →

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil, — read the full passage →

Is there not, if thou dost well, acceptance? and if thou dost not well, at the opening a sin-offering is crouching, and unto thee its desire, and thou rulest over it.'

No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This <FI>is<Fi> the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

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

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

Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

And it came to pass, in their going on, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman, by name Martha, did receive him into her house, — read the full passage →

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

and he saith, `Attend, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and O king Jehoshaphat, Thus said Jehovah to you, Ye fear not, nor are afraid of the face of this great multitude, for not for you <FI>is<Fi> the battle, but for God. — read the full passage →

My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, — read the full passage →

and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, `Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.' — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee. — read the full passage →

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

<FI> Mem.<Fi> O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it <FI>is<Fi> my meditation.

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

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, — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness, — read the full passage →

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

But--in the law of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

As many, therefore, as <FI>are<Fi> perfect--let us think this, and if <FI>in<Fi> anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you, — read the full passage →

`And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe--not much more you, O ye of little faith?

Desist, and know that I <FI>am<Fi> God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

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 that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

And thou--be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn, — read the full passage →

And I send unto them messengers, saying, `A great work I am doing, and I am not able to come down; why doth the work cease when I let it alone, and have come down unto you?'

And Peter answering him said, `Sir, if it is thou, bid me come to thee upon the waters;' — read the full passage →

and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, — read the full passage →

that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied <FI>with<Fi> silver, nor he who is in love with stores <FI>with<Fi> increase. Even this <FI>is<Fi> vanity.

and ye have been very strong to keep and to do the whole that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so as not to turn aside from it right or left,

Jesus said to him, `If thou dost will to be perfect, go away, sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come, follow me.' — read the full passage →

Of man <FI>are<Fi> arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue. — read the full passage →

For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace. — read the full passage →

Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

`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 Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, `Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.'

If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones <FI>are<Fi> over them. — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

`And other fell amidst the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with it, did choke it.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that <FI>is<Fi> in the Christ;

and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

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 →

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

`And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known--not even the messengers of the heavens--except my Father only; — read the full passage →

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you, — read the full passage →

In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

The law of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> stedfast, Making wise the simple, — read the full passage →

above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

And he lingereth, and the men lay hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, through the mercy of Jehovah unto him, and they bring him out, and cause him to rest without the city.

for nothing did we bring into the world--<FI> it is<Fi> manifest that we are able to carry nothing out; — read the full passage →

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth; — read the full passage →

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

For the Lord Jehovah doth nothing, Except He hath revealed His counsel unto His servants the prophets.

And it came to pass thereafter, that he was going through every city and village, preaching and proclaiming good news of the reign of God, and the twelve <FI>are<Fi> with him, — read the full passage →

`Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come; — read the full passage →

`But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who <FI>is<Fi> in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

and he saith, `Attend, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and O king Jehoshaphat, Thus said Jehovah to you, Ye fear not, nor are afraid of the face of this great multitude, for not for you <FI>is<Fi> the battle, but for God.

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother, — read the full passage →

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that <FI>is<Fi> in my members.

and he said to them, `Come ye yourselves apart to a desert place, and rest a little,' for those coming and those going were many, and not even to eat had they opportunity,

To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Because of this it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside, — read the full passage →

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,