Light And Obedience

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the 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 saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

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.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

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

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

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

Thus says Yahweh, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away. — read the full passage →

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

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

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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 assembly;

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, 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 to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing. — read the full passage →

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, — read the full passage →

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

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

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

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

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has 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 Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who 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 begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

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

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has 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 lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

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

through whom we received grace and apostleship, for 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 the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

He took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and gave to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in memory of me.”

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.

John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →