Guardian Angels

are they not all spirits of service--for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;

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,

and they said unto her, `Thou art mad;' and she was confidently affirming <FI>it<Fi> to be so, and they said, `It is his messenger;'

`And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham--and the rich man also died, and was buried;

And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders--and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands--

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and <FI>in<Fi> worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

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

for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last--as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;

and I fell before his feet, to bow before him, and he saith to me, `See--not! fellow servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren, those having the testimony of Jesus; bow before God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of the prophecy.'

yet Michael, the chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking judgment, but said, `The Lord rebuke thee!'

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

And a messenger of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, `Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,' --this is desert.

and a messenger of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said,

And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage, — read the full passage →

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

and no wonder--for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

for Sadducees, indeed, say there is no rising again, nor messenger, nor spirit, but Pharisees confess both.

And about that time, Herod the king put forth his hands, to do evil to certain of those of the assembly, — read the full passage →

And there appeared to him a messenger of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of the perfume, — read the full passage →

`And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known--not even the messengers of the heavens--except my Father only;

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

and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, `And let them bow before him--all messengers of God;'

In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, — read the full passage →

he saw in a vision manifestly, as it were the ninth hour of the day, a messenger of God coming in unto him, and saying to him, `Cornelius;'

which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become, — read the full passage →

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying,

And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which <FI>is<Fi> Nazareth,

And the messenger answering said to him, `I am Gabriel, who have been standing near before God, and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to proclaim these good news to thee,

dost thou think that I am not able now to call upon my Father, and He will place beside me more than twelve legions of messengers?

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;

for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

Then doth the Devil leave him, and lo, messengers came and were ministering to him.

And on his thinking of these things, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream appeared to him, saying, `Joseph, son of David, thou mayest not fear to receive Mary thy wife, for that which in her was begotten <FI>is<Fi> of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →