Nobleness

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

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.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — 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 →

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.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

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,

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

But I don’t permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia: — read the full passage →

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. — read the full passage →

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →

the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. — read the full passage →

I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. — read the full passage →

They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory is risen on you. — read the full passage →

so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me,” says Yahweh.

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. — read the full passage →

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor. — read the full passage →

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. — read the full passage →

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →