Losing Friends

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; — read the full passage →

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

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;

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; — read the full passage →

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth--

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

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

`Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

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

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

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

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — read the full passage →

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

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

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?

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 →

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

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.

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

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;

and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

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

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life.

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

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;

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

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

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

and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up--to victory;

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

And as he is going forth out of the temple, one of his disciples saith to him, `Teacher, see! what stones! and what buildings!' — read the full passage →

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this <FI>is<Fi> the first command; — read the full passage →

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

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 →

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister-- — read the full passage →

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

but this thou hast, that thou dost hate the works of the Nicolaitans, that I also hate.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →