God Given Talents

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

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

The city is square, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, — read the full passage →

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. — read the full passage →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

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

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.”’”

Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!” — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — read the full passage →

He entered and was passing through Jericho. — read the full passage →

Remember Lot’s wife!

As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. — read the full passage →

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”

But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, — read the full passage →

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

For what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. — read the full passage →

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →

“You shall have no other gods before me.

Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.