Long Distance Relationships

all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

for if even in the flesh I am absent--yet in the spirit I am with you, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in regard to Christ;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

`Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask--it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens,

I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint,

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

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;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for <FI>it<Fi> ? — read the full passage →

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

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 all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us, — read the full passage →

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people-- — read the full passage →

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.

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

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

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

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

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

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

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

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

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;

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?

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

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.

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

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

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

Jesus answered and said to him, `That which I do thou hast not known now, but thou shalt know after these things;'

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

Jesus, therefore, having seen <FI>his<Fi> mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;' — read the full passage →

and the truth shall make you free.'