Past Sin

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;

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

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,

but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth; — read the full passage →

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

for with the heart doth <FI>one<Fi> believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

`This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest, — read the full passage →

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

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.

And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners--first of whom I am;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — read the full passage →

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices; — read the full passage →

In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou <FI>art<Fi> dying, and dost not live.' — read the full passage →

and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk, — read the full passage →

`Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.

if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth; — read the full passage →

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;

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us; — read the full passage →

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

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? --not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

I came not to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

And Joseph hath not been able to refrain himself before all those standing by him, and he calleth, `Put out every man from me;' and no man hath stood with him when Joseph maketh himself known unto his brethren, — read the full passage →

`Reform! and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, — read the full passage →

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder! — read the full passage →

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

Not good <FI>is<Fi> your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven? — read the full passage →

for it hath been written, `I live! saith the Lord--to Me bow shall every knee, and every tongue shall confess to God;' — read the full passage →

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

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

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

`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 if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them;

and they did speak evil of the God of the heaven, from their pains, and from their sores, and they did not reform from their works.

and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform--to give to Him glory.

and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform; — read the full passage →

remember, then, whence thou hast fallen, and reform, and the first works do; and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will remove thy lamp-stand from its place--if thou mayest not reform;

And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

also to which an antitype doth now save us--baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

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,

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.

For the law having a shadow of the coming good things--not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near, — read the full passage →

For every chief priest--out of men taken--in behalf of men is set in things <FI>pertaining<Fi> to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins, — read the full passage →

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

because of this all things do I endure, because of the choice ones, that they also salvation may obtain that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, with glory age-during.

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God, — read the full passage →

So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved. — read the full passage →

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

To boast, really, is not profitable for me, for I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him, — read the full passage →

For we have known that if our earthly house of the tabernacle may be thrown down, a building from God we have, an house not made with hands--age-during--in the heavens, — read the full passage →

But some one will say, `How do the dead rise? — read the full passage →

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together; — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare <FI>it<Fi> , because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove; — read the full passage →

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do. — read the full passage →

Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned--to righteousness:

but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

how nothing I did keep back of what things are profitable, not to declare to you, and to teach you publicly, and in every house, — read the full passage →

and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe <FI>them<Fi> from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying, — read the full passage →

on the sabbath-day also we went forth outside of the city, by a river, where there used to be prayer, and having sat down, we were speaking to the women who came together, — read the full passage →

And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

for <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive--even as also we?'