Having Other Beliefs

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom: — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; — read the full passage →

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

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:

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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 →

The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

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

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), — read the full passage →

What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; — read the full passage →

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints, — read the full passage →

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you. — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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

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,

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.

Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. — read the full passage →

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am. — read the full passage →

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.” — read the full passage →

But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. — read the full passage →

I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them.

Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people”; neither let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz’; — read the full passage →

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

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

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned? — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.