Hindering

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

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

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. — read the full passage →

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

They came to Balaam, and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, ‘Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me,

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”

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 →

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say. — read the full passage →

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

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

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

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.

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.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ — read the full passage →

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you./f + Septuagint reads “him” instead of “you”./f*

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

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

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. — 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.

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

As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. — read the full passage →

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

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.

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

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. — read the full passage →

and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, — read the full passage →

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; neither his ear heavy, that it can’t hear: — read the full passage →

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.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars.”

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”