Peer Pressure

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 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.

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> .

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners; — read the full passage →

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

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him. — read the full passage →

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus--having scourged <FI>him<Fi> --that he might be crucified.

for in that he suffered, himself being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

And Jesus answering said to them, `Take heed that no one may lead you astray,

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;

`The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil, — read the full passage →

and who <FI>is<Fi> he who will be doing you evil, if of Him who is good ye may become imitators? — read the full passage →

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, — read the full passage →

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

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I--I will receive you,

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love. — read the full passage →

We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ, — read the full passage →

ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend <FI>it<Fi> . — read the full passage →

for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified; — read the full passage →

and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set: — read the full passage →

but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness, — read the full passage →

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 →

And Agrippa said unto Paul, `It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence: — read the full passage →

and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired. — read the full passage →

and others mocking said, --`They are full of sweet wine;' — read the full passage →

When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid, — read the full passage →

and they were giving him to drink wine mingled with myrrh, and he did not receive. — read the full passage →

and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment <FI>is<Fi> as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man; — read the full passage →

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you--through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ--who in presence, indeed <FI>am<Fi> humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you, — read the full passage →

These twelve did Jesus send forth, having given command to them, saying, `To the way of the nations go not away, and into a city of the Samaritans go not in, — read the full passage →

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,