Needing Him

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

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.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

Jesus went out from there, and withdrew into the region of Tyre and Sidon. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. — read the full passage →