Progressive Nature Of Sin

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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.

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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 →

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.

He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

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;

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. — read the full passage →

He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”

As time passed, Cain brought an offering to Yahweh from the fruit of the ground. — read the full passage →

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. — read the full passage →

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; — read the full passage →

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

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

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

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

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

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.

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.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. — 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 →

Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life. — read the full passage →

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

Cain said to Yahweh, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

Abstain from every form of evil.

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.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

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

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. — read the full passage →

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and doesn’t find it. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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.’”

One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? — read the full passage →

Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. — read the full passage →

Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

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 →