Fortitude

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross. — read the full passage →

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”

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.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

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

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. — read the full passage →

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, — read the full passage →

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. They had also John as their attendant.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. — read the full passage →

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

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

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” — read the full passage →

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one. — read the full passage →

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — read the full passage →