Loving God More Than The World

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

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.

`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

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--

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

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind, — read the full passage →

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — read the full passage →

The woman saith to him, `Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet; — read the full passage →

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome; — read the full passage →

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

saying in a great voice, `Fear ye God, and give to Him glory, because come did the hour of His judgment, and bow ye before Him who did make the heaven, and the land, and sea, and fountains of waters.'

for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged <FI>it<Fi> , to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

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 there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them, — read the full passage →

And he said, `A certain man had two sons, — read the full passage →

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

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.

and Jesus answered him--`The first of all the commands <FI>is<Fi> , Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one; — read the full passage →

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first,

`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.

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 because of this, of a new covenant he is mediator, that, death having come, for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those called may receive the promise of the age-during inheritance,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you; — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

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 →

and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.

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 →

and now he hath obtained a more excellent service, how much also of a better covenant is he mediator, which on better promises hath been sanctioned,

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

He saith to him the third time, `Simon, <FI>son<Fi> of Jonas, dost thou dearly love me?' Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, `Dost thou dearly love me?' and he said to him, `Lord, thou hast known all things; thou dost know that I dearly love thee.' Jesus saith to him, `Feed my sheep;

And it came to pass, in their going on, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman, by name Martha, did receive him into her house, — read the full passage →

`But I have against thee: That thy first love thou didst leave!

and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; — read the full passage →

And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become <FI>those<Fi> of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!' — read the full passage →

for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world--to life age-during shall keep it;

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

and he saith to them, `Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men,'

who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.