Topic
Elevation
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; — read the full passage →
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. — read the full passage →
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: — read the full passage →
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? — read the full passage →
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet. — read the full passage →
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
And God spake all these words, saying, — read the full passage →
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, — read the full passage →
And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. — read the full passage →
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: — read the full passage →
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. — read the full passage →
Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days. — read the full passage →
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: — read the full passage →
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. — read the full passage →
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
But thou, Beth–lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. — read the full passage →
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded. — read the full passage →
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: KJV.