Fashion

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, — read the full passage →

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price, — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy; — read the full passage →

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; -- — read the full passage →

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — read the full passage →

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, — read the full passage →

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

I did write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who <FI>is<Fi> from the beginning; I did write to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God in you doth remain, and ye have overcome the evil. — read the full passage →

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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,

because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

And gathered together unto him are the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil, — read the full passage →

And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field.

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.

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — read the full passage →

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known;

And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,

And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on; — read the full passage →

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, — read the full passage →

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become <FI>those<Fi> of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

He who is overcoming--this one--shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

for nothing did we bring into the world--<FI> it is<Fi> manifest that we are able to carry nothing out; — read the full passage →

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God,

so thoughtless are ye! having begun in the Spirit, now in the flesh do ye end?

To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

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 →

And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury--rich men, — read the full passage →

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, — read the full passage →

And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple, — read the full passage →

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead; — read the full passage →

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,