Eavesdropping

Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For there is no partiality with God.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

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.”

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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, — read the full passage →

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? — read the full passage →

Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off from his hands.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’

Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.” — read the full passage →

They prayed, and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. — read the full passage →

having abolished in the flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace;

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman.

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

The law is not of faith, but, “The man who does them will live by them.”

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

For if the dead aren’t raised, neither has Christ been raised.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, attending continually on this very thing.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls, — read the full passage →

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

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

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

Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense. — read the full passage →

“Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn’t understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. — read the full passage →

The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the sound, but seeing no one.

However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,

and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’ — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.

But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,

Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!”