Leaving Church

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ; — read the full passage →

and these have been written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.'

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

`And whenever they may persecute you in this city, flee to the other, for verily I say to you, ye may not have completed the cities of Israel till the Son of Man may come.

he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers-- — read the full passage →

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

if ye ask anything in my name I will do <FI>it<Fi> .

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned, — read the full passage →

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God; — read the full passage →

Servants--to their own masters <FI>are<Fi> to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

`Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do--that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;'

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and to the teaching according to piety, — read the full passage →

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and those without God doth judge; and put ye away the evil from among yourselves.

praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam--Enoch--saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads, — read the full passage →

every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son; — read the full passage →

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth <FI>thee<Fi> to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God--a pillar and foundation of the truth,

so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

Salute you doth the <FI>assembly<Fi> in Babylon jointly elected, and Markus my son.

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-<FI> stone<Fi> , — read the full passage →

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,

`And concerning the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the Book of Moses (at The Bush), how God spake to him, saying, I <FI>am<Fi> the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

And he said to them, `Verily I say to you, That there are certain of those standing here, who may not taste of death till they see the reign of God having come in power.'

Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, — read the full passage →

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers--

`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

saying, `Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! -- — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

he is not here, but was raised; remember how he spake to you, being yet in Galilee, — read the full passage →

and lo, there came a man, whose name <FI>is<Fi> Jairus, and he was a chief of the synagogue, and having fallen at the feet of Jesus, was calling on him to come to his house; — read the full passage →

Then was fulfilled that spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, `And I took the thirty silverlings, the price of him who hath been priced, whom they of the sons of Israel did price, — read the full passage →

and coming, he dwelt in a city named Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophets, that `A Nazarene he shall be called.'

And he saith to me, `Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him? — read the full passage →

As it hath been written in the prophets, `Lo, I send My messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee,' --

for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.