Intimacy With God

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. — read the full passage →

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; — read the full passage →

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. — read the full passage →

It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. — read the full passage →

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, your God, is in your midst, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. — read the full passage →

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

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.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to 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.”

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

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.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

But I have this against you, that you left your first love. — read the full passage →

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ — read the full passage →

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.” — read the full passage →

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.” — read the full passage →

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and take action.

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live? — read the full passage →

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; — read the full passage →

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. — read the full passage →

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

I and the Father are one.”

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you? — read the full passage →

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. — read the full passage →

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! — read the full passage →

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 →

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.