Jealous

for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

for yet ye are fleshly, for where <FI>there is<Fi> among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

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

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form <FI>it<Fi> , Why me didst thou make thus? — read the full passage →

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind, — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

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;

Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,' — read the full passage →

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

for every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, `Now did come the salvation, and the power, and the reign, of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because cast down was the accuser of our brethren, who is accusing them before our God day and night; — read the full passage →

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well; — read the full passage →

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

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

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

Thou--who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these: — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness <FI>is<Fi> with God? let it not be! — read the full passage →

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil; — read the full passage →

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what <FI>is<Fi> not My people--My people; and her not beloved--Beloved, — read the full passage →

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me. — read the full passage →

and this they said, trying him, that they might have to accuse him. And Jesus, having stooped down, with the finger he was writing on the ground, — read the full passage →

but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves. — read the full passage →

to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;

`And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing, — read the full passage →

and he said to them, `I was beholding the Adversary, as lightning from the heaven having fallen;

`For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon; — read the full passage →

`And if thy hand may cause thee to stumble, cut it off; it is better for thee maimed to enter into the life, than having the two hands, to go away to the gehenna, to the fire--the unquenchable--

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' --and they were being stumbled at him. — read the full passage →

they therefore having been gathered together, Pilate said to them, `Whom will ye I shall release to you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?' — read the full passage →

`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will. — read the full passage →

and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned. — read the full passage →

take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee; — read the full passage →

And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle? — read the full passage →

and many first shall be last, and last first.

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

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

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience; — read the full passage →

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned; — read the full passage →

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

for the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> death, and the mind of the Spirit--life and peace; — read the full passage →

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not--but I chose out of the world--because of this the world hateth you. — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

and into whatever house ye do enter, first say, Peace to this house; — read the full passage →

While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, --the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.' — read the full passage →

`Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves. — read the full passage →