Jealousness

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?

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

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

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,

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

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; — read the full passage →

and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

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

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

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

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;

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

because of this become not fools, but--understanding what <FI>is<Fi> the will of the Lord,

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation; — 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 →

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 this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee--God, thy God--with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

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 →

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

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;

But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, `I will provoke you to jealousy by <FI>that which is<Fi> not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,' — read the full passage →

and he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end my works, I will give to him authority over the nations, — read the full passage →

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear; — read the full passage →

if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny <FI>him<Fi> , he also shall deny us;

but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God, — read the full passage →

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, — read the full passage →

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

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 →

do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He? — read the full passage →

and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

Lo, then, goodness and severity of God--upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility--life age-during;

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek. — read the full passage →

ye--ye have known; --the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached;

and ye the Holy and Righteous One did deny, and desired a man--a murderer--to be granted to you,

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, — read the full passage →

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

I did glorify Thee on the earth, the work I did finish that Thou hast given me, that I may do <FI>it<Fi> .

Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods? — read the full passage →

They said therefore unto him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?' — read the full passage →

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 the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.'

`Teacher, which <FI>is<Fi> the great command in the Law?' — read the full passage →

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →