Obeying The Will Of God

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

And Samuel saith, `Hath Jehovah had delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as <FI>in<Fi> hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? lo, hearkening than sacrifice is better; to give attention than fat of rams;

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain--to the age.

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

saying, `Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me--;but, not my will, but Thine be done.' --

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep--in the blood of an age-during covenant--our Lord Jesus, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom <FI>is<Fi> the glory--to the ages of the ages! Amen.

`Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, — read the full passage →

To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law <FI>is<Fi> within my heart.

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping <FI>it<Fi> !'

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

because of this become not fools, but--understanding what <FI>is<Fi> the will of the Lord,

because I have come down out of the heaven, not that I may do my will, but the will of Him who sent me.

And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

after Jehovah your God ye walk, and Him ye fear, and His commands ye keep, and to His voice ye hearken, and Him ye serve, and to Him ye cleave.

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, — read the full passage →

and he said, The God of our fathers did choose thee beforehand to know His will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice out of his mouth,

and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

and having removed him, He did raise up to them David for king, to whom also having testified, he said, I found David, the <FI>son<Fi> of Jesse, a man according to My heart, who shall do all My will.

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or--I do speak from myself.

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, — read the full passage →

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou <FI>art<Fi> my God--Thy Spirit <FI>is<Fi> good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

always rejoice ye; — read the full passage →

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

Again, a second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying, `My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, Thy will be done;'

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make; — read the full passage →

<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.

in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and <FI>it is<Fi> well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.

and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep; — read the full passage →

because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit, — read the full passage →

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who <FI>art<Fi> in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name. — read the full passage →

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John, — read the full passage →

And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law--the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved <FI>you<Fi> to do, and those not to neglect.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

<FI> Aleph.<Fi> O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah, — read the full passage →

And Moses hasteth, and boweth to the earth, and doth obeisance, — read the full passage →

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, — read the full passage →

instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

because of this the woman ought to have <FI>a token of<Fi> authority upon the head, because of the messengers;

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye--ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

in that I am commanding thee to-day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and thou hast lived and multiplied, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in the land whither thou art going in to possess it.

And Jehovah God saith to the woman, `What <FI>is<Fi> this thou hast done?' and the woman saith, `The serpent hath caused me to forget--and I do eat.'

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God taketh the man, and causeth him to rest in the garden of Eden, to serve it, and to keep it.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed? — read the full passage →

Only, be very watchful to do the command and the law which Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and to cleave to Him, and to serve Him, with all your heart, and with all your soul.'

`And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that <FI>is<Fi> above every name,

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.