Jealous

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” — read the full passage →

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”? — read the full passage →

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. — read the full passage →

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well. — read the full passage →

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience, — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be! — read the full passage →

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.” — 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 →

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger. — read the full passage →

But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves. — read the full passage →

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ — read the full passage →

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him. — read the full passage →

When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?” — read the full passage →

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not! — read the full passage →

The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. — read the full passage →

Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. — read the full passage →

About the eleventh hourhe went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’ — read the full passage →

But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. — read the full passage →

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; — read the full passage →

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

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’ — read the full passage →

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.” — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. — read the full passage →