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,

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.

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;

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;

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.

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,

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,

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;

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

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 →

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 →

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;

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 →

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 →

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 →

--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 →