Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
For no word from God shall be void of power.
And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our God day and night.
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.
In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:
whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;
I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch. — read the full passage →
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.
but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath 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 hath granted unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that called us by his own glory and virtue;
whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.