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For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

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

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. — read the full passage →

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! — read the full passage →

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. — read the full passage →

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.” — read the full passage →

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. — read the full passage →

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’ — read the full passage →

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned. — read the full passage →

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; — read the full passage →

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted. — read the full passage →

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and should turn again; and I would heal them.’ — read the full passage →

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has. — read the full passage →

Therefore by their fruits you will know them. — read the full passage →

for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. — read the full passage →

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near: — read the full passage →

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. — read the full passage →

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor. — read the full passage →

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! — read the full passage →

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them. — read the full passage →

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. — read the full passage →

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net. — read the full passage →

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?” — read the full passage →

But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; — read the full passage →

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. — read the full passage →

“You shall not make an engraved image for yourself, any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. — read the full passage →

We love him, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.

But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

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

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

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.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. — read the full passage →

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

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

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope — read the full passage →

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

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

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

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’

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.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. — read the full passage →

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good.

God said, “Let the earth produce living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.

God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.