Division Of Labor

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, — read the full passage →

For the body is not one member, but many. — read the full passage →

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. — read the full passage →

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ; — read the full passage →

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

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.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. — read the full passage →

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you; — read the full passage →

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

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 →

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. — read the full passage →

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?” — read the full passage →

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.” — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! — read the full passage →

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. — read the full passage →

To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. — read the full passage →

Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death. — read the full passage →

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. — read the full passage →

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.” — read the full passage →

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands. — read the full passage →

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

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

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, — read the full passage →

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, — read the full passage →

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, — read the full passage →

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, — read the full passage →

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages. — read the full passage →

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

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 even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, — read the full passage →

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. — read the full passage →

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. — read the full passage →

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. — read the full passage →

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, — read the full passage →

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. — read the full passage →

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” — read the full passage →

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, — read the full passage →

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

They said one to another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

Soon afterwards, he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David, — read the full passage →

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →