Excuses

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’ — read the full passage →

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.” — read the full passage →

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

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.

Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

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.

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

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

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

Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”

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

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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 he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’ — read the full passage →

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.” — read the full passage →