In Secret

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. — read the full passage →

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. — read the full passage →

Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: — read the full passage →

And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? — read the full passage →

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. — read the full passage →

Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not?

That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

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

And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.

Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

And God spake all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.