Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
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.
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,
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
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.
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
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. — read the full passage →
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. — read the full passage →
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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;
Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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