Double Minded

and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed, — read the full passage →

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

a two-souled man <FI>is<Fi> unstable in all his ways.

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, — read the full passage →

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

`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.

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend <FI>it<Fi> .

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

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

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;

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart, — 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, — read the full passage →

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

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,

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

<FI> Samech.<Fi> Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

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

By David. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And all my inward parts--His Holy Name. — read the full passage →

And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death; — read the full passage →

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him; — read the full passage →

and Elijah cometh nigh unto all the people, and saith, `Till when are ye leaping on the two branches? --if Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> God, go after Him; and if Baal, go after him;' and the people have not answered him a word.

because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

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,

for the good that I will, I do not; but the evil that I do not will, this I practise.

And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit--to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

`Happy the meek--because they shall inherit the land.

Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself, — read the full passage →

Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot. — read the full passage →

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

A stone and a stone, an ephah and an ephah, Even both of them <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed <FI>it<Fi> with the bathing of the water in the saying, — read the full passage →

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing,

And the chief priest said, `Are then these things so?' — read the full passage →

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

`The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened,

and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, `I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.'

For high have the heavens been above the earth, So high have been My ways above your ways, And My thoughts above your thoughts.

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord--

and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

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.

And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is--A precept of men is taught!

Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers. — read the full passage →

And the days are many, and the word of Jehovah hath been unto Elijah in the third year, saying, `Go, appear unto Ahab, and I give rain on the face of the ground;' — read the full passage →

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

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

And these <FI>are<Fi> words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the remnant of the elders of the removal, and unto the priests, and unto the prophets, and unto all the people--whom Nebuchadnezzar removed from Jerusalem to Babylon, — read the full passage →

Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts, — read the full passage →

And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny <FI>Him<Fi> , being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; -- — read the full passage →

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

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

Their heart hath been divided, now they are guilty, He doth break down their altars, He doth destroy their standing-pillars.

Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned. — read the full passage →

So--because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

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 →

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

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;

and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, <FI>it is<Fi> an unruly evil, full of deadly poison,

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that <FI>is<Fi> in you toward Christ Jesus;

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

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.

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God; — read the full passage →

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