Excuses

`And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused. — read the full passage →

And he said unto another, `Be following me;' and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;' — read the full passage →

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging,

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

And another of his disciples said to him, `Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;'

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

`And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused.

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

if I had not come and spoken to them, they were not having sin; but now pretext they have not for their sin.

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.

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.

`And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused:

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

this is the bread that out of the heaven is coming down, that any one may eat of it, and not die. — read the full passage →

and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth;

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;'

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one, — read the full passage →

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — 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;

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

and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

And he said unto another, `Be following me;' and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;'

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

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

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

and he sent his servant at the hour of the supper to say to those having been called, Be coming, because now are all things ready. — read the full passage →

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

`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; — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right! — read the full passage →