Our Countenance

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

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.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

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 →

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it. — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ — read the full passage →

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. — read the full passage →

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? — read the full passage →

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?” — read the full passage →

Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, — read the full passage →

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him. — read the full passage →

I and the Father are one.” — read the full passage →

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.” — read the full passage →

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”