Persuasiveness

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

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

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son. — read the full passage →

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense. — read the full passage →

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” — read the full passage →

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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 →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death;

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe. — read the full passage →

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now, but some have also fallen asleep.

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

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart”; that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood. — read the full passage →

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy, — read the full passage →

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke out to them, “You men of Judea, and all you who dwell at Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.

This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. — 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.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

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

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

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 →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

These words seemed to them to be nonsense, and they didn’t believe them.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. — read the full passage →

There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest. — read the full passage →

A voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!”

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened, — read the full passage →

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves. — read the full passage →

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven. — read the full passage →

When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. — read the full passage →

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, — read the full passage →

God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? — read the full passage →

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge. — 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 →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.