Personal Vision

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you; — read the full passage →

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; — read the full passage →

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” — read the full passage →

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. — read the full passage →

As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.” — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain, — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth. — read the full passage →

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. — read the full passage →

To them it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you, they ministered these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

For the body is not one member, but many. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?” — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.” — read the full passage →

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. — read the full passage →

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. — read the full passage →

Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered from continuing by death. — read the full passage →

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. — read the full passage →

And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands. — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly, — read the full passage →

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. — read the full passage →

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners, — read the full passage →

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, — read the full passage →

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages. — read the full passage →

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread. — read the full passage →

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, — read the full passage →

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake. — read the full passage →

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. — read the full passage →

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. — read the full passage →

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, — read the full passage →

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

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

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

“I have yet many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

“When the Counselorhas come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

nor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn’t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. — read the full passage →

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John — read the full passage →

They said one to another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! — read the full passage →

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David, — read the full passage →

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

The superscription of his accusation was written over him, “THE KING OF THE JEWS.”