Obstacles

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

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

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

He will say, “Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, — read the full passage →

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it. — read the full passage →

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

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

Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe? — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

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

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish.”

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; — read the full passage →

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — 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 →

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. — read the full passage →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim. — read the full passage →

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.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

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 →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. — read the full passage →

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. — read the full passage →

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

“Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house. — read the full passage →

Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’” — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — read the full passage →

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion. — read the full passage →

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith. — read the full passage →

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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.

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,