Not Going To Church

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands,

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! — read the full passage →

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!” — read the full passage →

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. — read the full passage →

for she said within herself, “If I just touch his garment, I will be made well.” — read the full passage →

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction. — read the full passage →

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies! — read the full passage →

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream. — read the full passage →

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →

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

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips. — read the full passage →

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. — read the full passage →

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. — read the full passage →

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

Job again took up his parable, and said, — read the full passage →

“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

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,

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. — read the full passage →

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. — read the full passage →

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ. — read the full passage →

When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time. — read the full passage →

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them. — read the full passage →

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun. — read the full passage →

He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues, — read the full passage →

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples. — read the full passage →

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. — read the full passage →

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. — read the full passage →

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. — read the full passage →

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!” — read the full passage →

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth. — read the full passage →

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of. — read the full passage →

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth? — read the full passage →

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. — read the full passage →

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. — read the full passage →

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams. — read the full passage →

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha. — read the full passage →

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. — read the full passage →

He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” — read the full passage →

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. — read the full passage →

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters. — read the full passage →

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” — read the full passage →

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me. — read the full passage →

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, — read the full passage →

Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east. — read the full passage →

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying, — read the full passage →

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice. — read the full passage →

The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, — read the full passage →

Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence, — read the full passage →

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine! — read the full passage →

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy. — read the full passage →

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone. — read the full passage →

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good. — read the full passage →

Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!

I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy. — read the full passage →

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. — read the full passage →

In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad before in his presence. — read the full passage →

Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel they prophesied to them. — read the full passage →

After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself. — read the full passage →

After this, the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle. — read the full passage →

The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded: — read the full passage →

David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies who served the king by division, and the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of valor, to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him. — read the full passage →

They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. — read the full passage →

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker. — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always. — read the full passage →

Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky, — read the full passage →

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.” — read the full passage →

The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings. — 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.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you. — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint. — read the full passage →