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.

“Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

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.

For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

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 →

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth;

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.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit, they refuse to return.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

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 →

All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.