Purpose Of Man

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

if any one doth speak--`as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister--`as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power--to the ages of the ages. Amen.

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, — read the full passage →

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

and when the living creatures do give glory, and honour, and thanks, to Him who is sitting upon the throne, who is living to the ages of the ages, — read the full passage →

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will, — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

for I have known that there doth not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh, good: for to will is present with me, and to work that which is right I do not find,

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth; — read the full passage →

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send--Jesus Christ;

he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God--the life he hath not.

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, — read the full passage →

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;

`Teacher, which <FI>is<Fi> the great command in the Law?' — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied; — read the full passage →

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

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 God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

and did raise <FI>us<Fi> up together, and did seat <FI>us<Fi> together in the heavenly <FI>places<Fi> in Christ Jesus,

always rejoice ye; — read the full passage →