God First

In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

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

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

for it hath been written--To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

`Verily, verily, I say to you--He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

and every spirit that doth not confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is not; and this is that of the antichrist, which ye heard that it doth come, and now in the world it is already.

that the man of God may be fitted--for every good work having been completed.

And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

Who <FI>is<Fi> a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He--He delighteth <FI>in<Fi> kindness.

(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.) — read the full passage →

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,

in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is, — read the full passage →

and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.

`And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

And for me, let it not be--to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

Tell me, ye who are willing to be under law, the law do ye not hear? — read the full passage →

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

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 God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, — read the full passage →

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

and this having said, he breathed on <FI>them<Fi> , and saith to them, `Receive the Holy Spirit;

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods; — read the full passage →

and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee--the head, and thou dost bruise him--the heel.'

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;'

`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll, — read the full passage →

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

And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters, — read the full passage →

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking, — read the full passage →

and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

and it will come--the day of the Lord--as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

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

searching in regard to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ that was in them was manifesting, testifying beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory after these,

concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy, — read the full passage →

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins,

so that the law became our child-conductor--to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous,

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified? — read the full passage →

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you--anathema let him be! — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

for he who is speaking in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue--to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

`Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; — read the full passage →

Many indeed, therefore, other signs also did Jesus before his disciples, that are not written in this book; — 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;

Still, however, also out of the rulers did many believe in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,

yet he having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in him,

and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything, — read the full passage →

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister-- — read the full passage →

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

and he said to them--`Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,

And, lo, two of them were going on during that day to a village, distant sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, the name of which <FI>is<Fi> Emmaus, — read the full passage →

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 →

`Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you--for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets.

And demons also were coming forth from many, crying out and saying--`Thou art the Christ, the Son of God;' and rebuking, he did not suffer them to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

And Jesus answered him, saying, `It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done; — read the full passage →

And again he began to teach by the sea, and there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he, having gone into the boat, sat in the sea, and all the multitude was near the sea, on the land, — read the full passage →

saying, `Away! what--to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art--the Holy One of God.'

And it came to pass in those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John at the Jordan;

A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all <FI>these<Fi> to come to pass, but the end is not yet. — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

And in that day Jesus, having gone forth from the house, was sitting by the sea, — read the full passage →

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

At that time did Jesus go on the sabbaths through the corn, and his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck ears, and to eat, — read the full passage →

Verily I say to you, there hath not risen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the reign of the heavens is greater than he. — read the full passage →

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

`Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake--because theirs is the reign of the heavens. — read the full passage →

For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch, — read the full passage →

And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions. — read the full passage →