Protecting The Church

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

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 Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

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.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” — read the full passage →

After this, I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth, or on the sea, or on any tree. — 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: — read the full passage →

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. — read the full passage →

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.

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,

Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; — read the full passage →

Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you, — read the full passage →

in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, this generationwill not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David; the Bright and Morning Star.”

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” — read the full passage →

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

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

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

Another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a great voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead, or on his hand, — read the full passage →

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.” — read the full passage →

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; — read the full passage →

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; — read the full passage →

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit the Kingdom of God; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable. — read the full passage →

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. — read the full passage →

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; — read the full passage →

On the Sabbath day we went outside of the city by a riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down, and spoke to the women who had come together. — read the full passage →

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God: — read the full passage →

I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!” — read the full passage →

A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had. — read the full passage →

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth.”

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. — read the full passage →

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. — read the full passage →

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. — read the full passage →

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. — read the full passage →

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, — read the full passage →

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; — read the full passage →

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

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

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming. — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. — read the full passage →

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; — read the full passage →

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

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.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

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

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. — read the full passage →

Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. — read the full passage →

Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. — read the full passage →

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God! — read the full passage →

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.

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;

“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 →

“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 →

Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near. — read the full passage →

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. — read the full passage →

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

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →