Indulgence

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.

and she who is given to luxury, living--hath died;

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

`As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — 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;

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

Whoso <FI>is<Fi> loving mirth <FI>is<Fi> a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

For the quaffer and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clotheth with rags.

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

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 I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

whose end <FI>is<Fi> destruction, whose god <FI>is<Fi> the belly, and whose glory <FI>is<Fi> in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

Wine <FI>is<Fi> a scorner--strong drink <FI>is<Fi> noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

And the dogs <FI>are<Fi> strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they <FI>are<Fi> shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter: — read the full passage →

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, — read the full passage →

ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

And lo, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, And slaughtering of sheep, Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, Eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; — read the full passage →

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall, — read the full passage →

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

For <FI>an object of<Fi> desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh--lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error, — read the full passage →

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

`Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness--for apart from law sin is dead.

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:

meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;

and she bringeth nigh unto him to eat, and he layeth hold on her, and saith to her, `Come, lie with me, my sister.' — read the full passage →

`And it hath been, in his hearing the words of this oath, and he hath blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though in the stubbornness of my heart I go on, in order to end the fulness with the thirst.

And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,

and they call unto Lot and say to him, `Where <FI>are<Fi> the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bring them out unto us, and we know them.'

let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord <FI>is<Fi> near;

and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman <FI>is<Fi> of very good appearance, — read the full passage →

lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days! — read the full passage →

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

<FI> With<Fi> ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works--cotton of Egypt. — read the full passage →

and I see among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one wedge of gold, whose weight <FI>is<Fi> fifty shekels, and I desire them, and take them; and lo, they <FI>are<Fi> hid in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.'

and his sons have not walked in his ways, and turn aside after the dishonest gain, and take a bribe, and turn aside judgment.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

verily I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till that thou mayest pay the last farthing.

And after these things I saw another messenger coming down out of the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his glory, — read the full passage →

But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

And Daniel purposeth in his heart that he will not pollute himself with the king's portion of food, and with the wine of his drinking, and he seeketh of the chief of the eunuchs that he may not pollute himself.

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things, — read the full passage →

and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

Is it time for you--you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, `Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.'

`And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously; — read the full passage →

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart. — read the full passage →

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up; — read the full passage →

Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who <FI>are<Fi> in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: `Bring in, and we do drink.' — read the full passage →

`At the end of twelve months, on the palace of the kingdom of Babylon he hath been walking; — read the full passage →

And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman? — read the full passage →

Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

`When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother; — read the full passage →

--thou mayest not touch, nor taste, nor handle-- — read the full passage →

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible; — read the full passage →

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me, — read the full passage →