Good Intentions

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering. — read the full passage →

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

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

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. — read the full passage →

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, — read the full passage →

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

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.

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

“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.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Who has raised up one from the east? Who called him to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.

For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.