Protection Of God

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

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

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

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:

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.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. — read the full passage →

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

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

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

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.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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.

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 →

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

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

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

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

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after 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.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. — read the full passage →

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

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

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

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.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

On the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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 →

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, — read the full passage →

The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing; — read the full passage →

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; — read the full passage →

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.

But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

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

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, — read the full passage →

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”; — read the full passage →

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.