Long Courtship

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,

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.

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

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

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but--to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

Do two walk together if they have not met?

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.

And he saith, `Who <FI>art<Fi> thou?' and she saith, `I <FI>am<Fi> Ruth thy handmaid, and thou hast spread thy skirt over thy handmaid, for thou <FI>art<Fi> a redeemer.' — read the full passage →

And he goeth down and speaketh to the woman, and she is right in the eyes of Samson;

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

Lo, a day hath come to Jehovah, And divided hath been thy spoil in thy midst. — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass as David sat in his house, that David saith unto Nathan the prophet, `Lo, I am dwelling in a house of cedars, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> under curtains;' — read the full passage →

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.'

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,

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, — read the full passage →

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek, — read the full passage →

Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul, — read the full passage →

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength. — read the full passage →

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 →

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

Counsel in the heart of a man <FI>is<Fi> deep water, And a man of understanding draweth it up. — read the full passage →

Also, without knowledge the soul <FI>is<Fi> not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity,

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what--do I attend to a virgin?

and Nathan saith unto David, `All that <FI>is<Fi> in thy heart do, for God <FI>is<Fi> with thee.'

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them, — read the full passage →

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — 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. — read the full passage →

And these <FI>are<Fi> the names of the tribes: From the north end unto the side of the way of Hethlon, at the coming in to Hamath, Hazar-Enan, the border of Damascus northward, unto the side of Hamath, and they have been his--side east and west, Dan one, — read the full passage →

For Jehovah our judge, Jehovah our lawgiver, Jehovah our king--He doth save us.

And Ahab declareth to Jezebel all that Elijah did, and all how he slew all the prophets by the sword, — read the full passage →

And Abraham <FI>is<Fi> old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all <FI>things<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking,

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;

since, would they not have ceased to be offered, because of those serving having no more conscience of sins, having once been purified?

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger <FI>is<Fi> the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia:

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

and this I say by way of concurrence--not of command,

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place--both theirs and ours:

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek,

And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city.

and by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, Asher one,

O Jehovah, favour us, for thee we have waited, Be their arm, in the mornings, Yea, our salvation in time of adversity.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, Not for kings, to drink wine, And for princes a desire of strong drink.

Praise Him with timbrel and dance, Praise Him with stringed instruments and organ.

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength.

And Thou, O Jehovah, <FI>art<Fi> a shield for me, My honour, and lifter up of my head.

and Jezebel sendeth a messenger unto Elijah, saying, `Thus doth the gods, and thus do they add, surely about this time to-morrow, I make thy life as the life of one of them.'

and sons of God see the daughters of men that they <FI>are<Fi> fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.

And the woman saith unto the serpent, `Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat,

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness <FI>is<Fi> on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,