God Testing Abraham

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, — read the full passage →

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.

according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;

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,

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

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

(for nothing did the law perfect) and the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw nigh to God.

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;

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh? — read the full passage →

may we rejoice and exult, and give the glory to Him, because come did the marriage of the Lamb, and his wife did make herself ready; — read the full passage →

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness, — read the full passage →

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

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive <FI>him<Fi> .

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.

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

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly--having triumphed over them in it.

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

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

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 →

Abraham our father--was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle, — read the full passage →

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

which things are allegorized, for these are the two covenants: one, indeed, from mount Sinai, to servitude bringing forth, which is Hagar;

and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise, — read the full passage →

and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things. — read the full passage →

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God,

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God; — read the full passage →

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

so that the law, indeed, <FI>is<Fi> holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that <FI>are<Fi> through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with <FI>him<Fi> , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:

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;

They answered and said to him, `Our father is Abraham;' Jesus saith to them, `If children of Abraham ye were, the works of Abraham ye were doing;

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have--Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous.

for the shewing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for His being righteous, and declaring him righteous who <FI>is<Fi> of the faith of Jesus.

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness.

`Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

`Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you, — read the full passage →