First Lady Of The Church

Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Strength and honour <FI>are<Fi> her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day.

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

And thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, And a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God,

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; — read the full passage →

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life--

it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

and it hath come to pass that the Egyptians see thee, and they have said, `This <FI>is<Fi> his wife,' and they have slain me, and thee they keep alive:

Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him: — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and the truth shall make you free.'

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, — read the full passage →

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

salute thee do the children of thy choice sister. Amen.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

and Apphia the beloved, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the assembly in thy house:

I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and do fill up the things lacking of the tribulations of the Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the assembly,

And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all <FI>things<Fi> --himself--first,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

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

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God, — read the full passage →

And I commend you to Phebe our sister--being a ministrant of the assembly that <FI>is<Fi> in Cenchrea--

The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth, — read the full passage →

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Salute you doth the <FI>assembly<Fi> in Babylon jointly elected, and Markus my son.

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous, — read the full passage →

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

salute ye those in Laodicea--brethren, and Nymphas, and the assembly in his house;

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers,

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

And concerning the collection that <FI>is<Fi> for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye--do ye; — read the full passage →

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ,

and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

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 →

And thou sayest, `To the age I am mistress,' While thou hast not laid these things to thy heart, Thou hast not remembered the latter end of it.

Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, `Mistress of kingdoms.'

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

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 →

and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth <FI>thee<Fi> to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God--a pillar and foundation of the truth,

for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.

and let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye were called in one body, and become thankful.

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

Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe <FI>it<Fi> ,

become offenceless, both to Jews and Greeks, and to the assembly of God;

And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly,

And having come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly, and the apostles, and the elders, they declared also as many things as God did with them;

Peter, therefore, indeed, was kept in the prison, and fervent prayer was being made by the assembly unto God for him,

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; — read the full passage →

for where there are two or three gathered together--to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

the secret of the seven stars that thou hast seen upon my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands: the seven stars are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven lamp-stands that thou hast seen are seven assemblies.

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,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly, — read the full passage →

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place--both theirs and ours:

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

and the assembly at their house; salute Epaenetus, my beloved, who is first-fruit of Achaia to Christ.

so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

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.

do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to <FI>them<Fi> , and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,

And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who <FI>are<Fi> in Jerusalem,

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 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.

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

And it came to pass thereafter, that he was going through every city and village, preaching and proclaiming good news of the reign of God, and the twelve <FI>are<Fi> with him, — read the full passage →

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

A Song of the Ascents, by David. I have rejoiced in those saying to me, `To the house of Jehovah we go.'

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →