Putting Jesus First

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, — read the full passage →

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

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

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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

For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, — read the full passage →

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

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,

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; — read the full passage →

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

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.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me. — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

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 →

The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him. — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

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.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. — 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 →

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; — read the full passage →

This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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 I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. — read the full passage →

As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. — read the full passage →

Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?” — read the full passage →

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. — read the full passage →

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. — read the full passage →

They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. — read the full passage →

But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. — read the full passage →

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying: “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.” — read the full passage →

Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say, — read the full passage →

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.” — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

When he had made an end of speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. — read the full passage →

I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!” — read the full passage →

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; — read the full passage →

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,

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.

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

He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. — read the full passage →

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him. — read the full passage →

Also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.” — read the full passage →

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

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 →

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

neither give place to the devil.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith? — read the full passage →

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

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, — read the full passage →