Living With Joy

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater; — read the full passage →

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. — read the full passage →

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” — read the full passage →

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. — read the full passage →

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights— I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion. — read the full passage →

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one. — read the full passage →

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless. — read the full passage →

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him. — read the full passage →

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him. — read the full passage →

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls. — read the full passage →

Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. — read the full passage →

Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. — read the full passage →

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son. — read the full passage →

They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading. — read the full passage →

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all. — read the full passage →

To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.” — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.