Exhortation

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.” — read the full passage →

I and the Father are one.”

They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

For many are called, but few chosen.”

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;

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 →

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. — read the full passage →

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. — read the full passage →

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

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

Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 →

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful. — read the full passage →

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb. — read the full passage →

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; — read the full passage →