Healthy Babies

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

and the child grew and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them, — read the full passage →

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

`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,

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

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 →

verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child--he may not enter into it;' — read the full passage →

`Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou--Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will are they, and they were created.'

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb;

We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and when God was well pleased--having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called <FI>me<Fi> through His grace--

for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;'

as it hath been written in the Law of the Lord, --`Every male opening a womb shall be called holy to the Lord,'

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

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Thou hast faith! to thyself have <FI>it<Fi> before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.' — read the full passage →

what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those <FI>is<Fi> death.

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious; — read the full passage →

Swift <FI>are<Fi> their feet to shed blood. — read the full passage →

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

For he is not a Jew who is <FI>so<Fi> outwardly, neither <FI>is<Fi> circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

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.

and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

And he said to them, `Verily I say to you, That there are certain of those standing here, who may not taste of death till they see the reign of God having come in power.' — read the full passage →

and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'

and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak, and <FI>that<Fi> it may cause as many as shall not bow before the image of the beast, that they may be killed.

And when the dragon saw that he was cast forth to the earth, he pursued the woman who did bring forth the male,

and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

and she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne,

and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;

and being with child she doth cry out, travailing and pained to bring forth.

and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;

to the only wise God our Saviour, <FI>is<Fi> glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages! Amen.

And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set <FI>you<Fi> in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

for he who is saying to him, `Hail,' hath fellowship with his evil works.

and this <FI>is<Fi> the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.