Not Fitting In

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. — 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.

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

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.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, — read the full passage →

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

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

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 →

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed 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.

But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe. — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men. — read the full passage →

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

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

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — 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 →

I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon. — read the full passage →

Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

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

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

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 →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. — read the full passage →

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it. — read the full passage →

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

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

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

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.