Providing

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — read the full passage →

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

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.

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — 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,

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

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

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

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

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.

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.

They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.” — read the full passage →

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?

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

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

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

Yahweh God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

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,

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him? — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, — read the full passage →

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

Then the end comes, when he will deliver up the Kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.

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

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →

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

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.”

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

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 →

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

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

You, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal: — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor. — read the full passage →

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase: — read the full passage →

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. — read the full passage →

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.