Topic
Elevation
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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you.
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →
And Jehovah 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 above 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 to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.
Grant thee thy heart’s desire, And fulfil all thy counsel.
but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.
to whom he also showed himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and speaking the things concerning 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 →
And 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 upon 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 day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!
But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.
For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor, — read the full passage →
He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden? — read the full passage →
wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.
Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself therewith: The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.
And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh 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 recesses of the deep?
And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, who is lame of his feet. — read the full passage →
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain until now, but some are fallen asleep;
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church which was in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa 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 on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up.
And God spake all these words, saying, — read the full passage →
And Jehovah God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them.
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree.
But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate:
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:
Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;
For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.
Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them, — read the full passage →
And the earth was waste 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, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.
For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up. — read the full passage →
Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it cannot be moved.
Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.
The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: — read the full passage →
doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;
and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
I saw also that the house had a raised basement 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 in elevation, 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 wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers: — read the full passage →
Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife);
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah 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 living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;
for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →
It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the 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 one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them. — read the full passage →
And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded. — read the full passage →
And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah 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: ASV.