Living For God

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

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

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

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,

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

and the truth shall make you free.'

`Thou hast no other Gods before Me.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. — read the full passage →

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.

Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys <FI>is<Fi> with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

`According as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, he also who is eating me, even that one shall live because of me;

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

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

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men, — read the full passage →

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst--at any time;

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send--Jesus Christ;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

And Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a God of truth, He <FI>is<Fi> a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.'

For upright <FI>is<Fi> the word of Jehovah, And all His work <FI>is<Fi> in faithfulness.

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

For who of all flesh <FI>is<Fi> he who hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire like us--and doth live?

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

And the burden of Jehovah ye do not mention any more, For the burden to each is--His word, And ye have overturned the words of the living God, Jehovah of Hosts, our God.

for to me to live <FI>is<Fi> Christ, and to die gain.

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, <FI>is<Fi> honour and glory--to the ages of the ages! Amen.

And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal--<FI> even<Fi> God.'

Thou hast said to Jehovah, `My Lord Thou <FI>art<Fi> ;' My good <FI>is<Fi> not for thine own sake;

And God saith, `Let the waters teem with the teeming living creature, and fowl let fly on the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.'

because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

`And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live.

I confess Thee with uprightness of heart, In my learning the judgments of Thy righteousness.

All things do without murmurings and reasonings, — read the full passage →

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, — read the full passage →

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.

as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — read the full passage →

Who <FI>is<Fi> wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding. — read the full passage →

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion <FI>is<Fi> God to the age.

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

lo, the bits we put into the mouths of the horses for their obeying us, and their whole body we turn about;