Loyalty

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

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.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God; — read the full passage →

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” All of the disciples also said likewise.

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

“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.

He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.” — read the full passage →

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong! — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can’t deny himself.”

Ruth said, “Don’t entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious:

Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, “Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp?” Abishai said, “I will go down with you.” — read the full passage →

I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Ittai answered the king, and said, “As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall is, whether for death or for life, even there also will your servant be.”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.” — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. — read the full passage →

All these being men of war, who could order the battle array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.

Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the army, who could set the battle in array, with all kinds of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and who could command and were not of double heart.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Who says to a king, ‘Vile!’ or to nobles, ‘Wicked!’?

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But the people said, “You shall not go out; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”

They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. — read the full passage →

All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’

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. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son. — read the full passage →

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him. — read the full passage →

You shall give authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.

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

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth, or a lame foot.

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

David said to him, “How were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh’s anointed?”

You, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, hear Yahweh’s word. — read the full passage →

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to kill Abner the son of Ner.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.