God Can Judge

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

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

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, — read the full passage →

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God, — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

and the death and the hades were cast to the lake of the fire--this <FI>is<Fi> the second death;

and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance <FI>is<Fi> as the sun shining in its might.

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,

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,

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou--who art thou that dost judge the other?

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

For every chief priest--out of men taken--in behalf of men is set in things <FI>pertaining<Fi> to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, — read the full passage →

In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

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

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

for this <FI>is<Fi> right and acceptable before God our Saviour, — read the full passage →

and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, <FI>is<Fi> honour and glory--to the ages of the ages! Amen.

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord? — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,) — read the full passage →

and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

`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.

he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

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

Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

`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;

Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

Thou hast known that <FI>for<Fi> all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is <FI>any<Fi> device:

And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

and if any one may take away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have been written in this scroll;'

Lo, I come quickly; happy <FI>is<Fi> he who is keeping the words of the prophecy of this scroll.'

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.'

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

and the sea did give up those dead in it, and the death and the hades did give up the dead in them, and they were judged, each one according to their works;

and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls--according to their works;

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 →

`The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.

and the smoke of their torment doth go up to ages of ages; and they have no rest day and night, who are bowing before the beast and his image, also if any doth receive the mark of his name.

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

And there was seen another sign in the heaven, and, lo, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems, — read the full passage →

and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth.

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

`Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

wild waves of a sea, foaming out their own shames; stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept.

These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up; — read the full passage →

These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling, to a judgment of a great day, in bonds everlasting, under darkness He hath kept,

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him: — read the full passage →

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and have known all things;

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast <FI>them<Fi> down to Tartarus, did deliver <FI>them<Fi> to judgment, having been reserved,

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction, — read the full passage →

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear; — read the full passage →

because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

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.

and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors;

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

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.

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

to the company and assembly of the first-born in heaven enrolled, and to God the judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men made perfect,

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

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

For the law having a shadow of the coming good things--not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near, — read the full passage →

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,