Not Fitting In

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. — read the full passage →

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, — read the full passage →

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; — read the full passage →

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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

Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. — read the full passage →

O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever. — read the full passage →

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →

And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

And God spake all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. — read the full passage →

Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, — read the full passage →

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. — read the full passage →

And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.