Provocation

The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

in its being said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

and her adversity hath also provoked her greatly, so as to make her tremble, for Jehovah hath shut up her womb. — read the full passage →

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

for God is not <FI>a God<Fi> of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, — read the full passage →

And the anger of Jehovah addeth to burn against Israel, and <FI>an adversary<Fi> moveth David about them, saying, `Go, number Israel and Judah.'

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

and he who hath seen hath testified, and his testimony is true, and that one hath known that true things he speaketh, that ye also may believe.

and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce; — read the full passage →

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one, — read the full passage →

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, — read the full passage →

because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; — read the full passage →

and she is happier if she may so remain--according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

And I have laid a charge against you, According to the fruit of your doings, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have kindled a fire in its forest, And it hath consumed--all its suburbs!

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, and unto Aaron, `Because ye have not believed in Me to sanctify Me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, therefore ye do not bring in this assembly unto the land which I have given to them.'

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.'

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens is perfect.

`For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll, — read the full passage →

and they shall see His face, and His name <FI>is<Fi> upon their foreheads,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

how shall we escape, having neglected so great salvation? which a beginning receiving--to be spoken through the Lord--by those having heard was confirmed to us,

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that <FI>is<Fi> in my members.

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

After these things did Jesus manifest himself again to the disciples on the sea of Tiberias, and he did manifest himself thus: — read the full passage →

Then, therefore, did Pilate take Jesus and scourge <FI>him<Fi> , — read the full passage →

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that hour what it behoveth <FI>you<Fi> to say.'

it seemed good also to me, having followed from the first after all things exactly, to write to thee in order, most noble Theophilus,

Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us, — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees, having come near, questioned him, if it is lawful for a husband to put away a wife, tempting him, — read the full passage →

And these shall go away to punishment age-during, but the righteous to life age-during.'

`Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

And Jesus answering said to them, `Ye go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God;

And Jesus passing by thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, named Matthew, and saith to him, `Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

and Judah begat Pharez and Zarah of Tamar, and Pharez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram,

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

Do two walk together if they have not met?

and it hath come to pass, ye separate it for an inheritance to yourselves, and to the sojourners who are sojourning in your midst, who have begotten sons in your midst, and they have been to you as native, with the sons of Israel, with you they are separated for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, — read the full passage →

Its princes in its midst <FI>are<Fi> as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

As to the pillars, eighteen cubits <FI>is<Fi> the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits doth compass it, and its thickness <FI>is<Fi> four fingers hollow.

There is no peace, said my God, to the wicked!

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'

Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

Woe to the wicked--evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

Seize ye for us foxes, Little foxes--destroyers of vineyards, Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.

If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.

If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! --it declareth me perverse.