Entitlement

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

and such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness working, their own bread they may eat;

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

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 →

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

A wise son--the instruction of a father, And a scorner--he hath not heard rebuke. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

`For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard, — read the full passage →

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine,

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,

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

Also--when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> with me, Thy rod and Thy staff--they comfort me.

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

for ye do it also to all the brethren who <FI>are<Fi> in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more, — read the full passage →

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

for see your calling, brethren, that not many <FI>are<Fi> wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; — read the full passage →

Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

The soul of the slothful is desiring, and hath not. And the soul of the diligent is made fat.

From the fruit of the mouth a man eateth good, And the soul of the treacherous--violence.

Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.

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

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

in like manner also he who <FI>received<Fi> the two, he gained, also he, other two;

`And the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and were sleeping,

There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth <FI>is<Fi> abundant.

`And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

`Then rose all those virgins, and trimmed their lamps,

and five of them were prudent, and five foolish;

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

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

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

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. — read the full passage →

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — 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;

for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

`Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things--

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you.

and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps.

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him.

be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

one God and Father of all, who <FI>is<Fi> over all, and through all, and in you all,

wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' --

and the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, because our lamps are going out;

The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

`And while they are going away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feasts, and the door was shut;

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

`For--as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance,

one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou--who art thou that dost judge the other?

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,

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

`And he who did receive the five talents, having gone, wrought with them, and made other five talents;

and he who did receive the five talents having come, brought other five talents, saying, `Sir, five talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other five talents did I gain besides them.

and he who did receive the one, having gone away, digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

and ye did not so learn the Christ,

being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

`And he who also did receive the two talents having come, said, Sir, two talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other two talents I did gain besides them.

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

`And he also who hath received the one talent having come, said, Sir, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering from whence thou didst not scatter;

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

`And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

`Take therefore from him the talent, and give to him having the ten talents,

and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me.

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around?

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

`Then shall they answer, they also, saying, Lord, when did we see thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or infirm, or in prison, and we did not minister to thee?

for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink;

And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

`Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye <FI>are<Fi> the least of all the peoples,

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them, — read the full passage →

<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.

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 →