Our Countenance

`I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming--the Almighty.'

Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.

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> .

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth-- — read the full passage →

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created, — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

yet to us <FI>is<Fi> one God, the Father, of whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and we through Him;

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it, — read the full passage →

verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;

Jesus answered them, `Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods? — read the full passage →

in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages; — read the full passage →

whose end <FI>is<Fi> destruction, whose god <FI>is<Fi> the belly, and whose glory <FI>is<Fi> in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

and Peter having seen, answered unto the people, `Men, Israelites! why wonder ye at this? or on us why look ye so earnestly, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk? — read the full passage →

`Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, `Whom do ye seek?' — read the full passage →

`And not in regard to these alone do I ask, but also in regard to those who shall be believing, through their word, in me; — read the full passage →

and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

ye heard that I said to you--I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said--I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him; — read the full passage →

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

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;' — read the full passage →

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens is perfect.

Jesus said to him again, `It hath been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'