Light And Obedience

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;

giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified;

These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

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.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

to Titus, my true child after a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:

for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.

Thus saith Jehovah, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. — read the full passage →

Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.

that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:

One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,

Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. — read the full passage →

For he hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honor than the house.

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, — read the full passage →

Sufficient to such a one is this punishment which was inflicted by the many; — read the full passage →

For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing, — read the full passage →

For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.

And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying, — read the full passage →

A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars; — read the full passage →

And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.

Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent.

For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

We therefore ought to welcome such, that we may be fellow-workers for the truth.

Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven:

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,

in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands.

but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ;

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

And working together with him we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:

Now concerning spiritualgifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. — read the full passage →

For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body.

For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ?

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ:

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Paul, calledto bean apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:

through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. — read the full passage →

And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

whose soever sins ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the firstdayof the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee: — read the full passage →

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples;

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in his own glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.

John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.

And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →