Reading Your Bible

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, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

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

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.'

till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching;

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 →

Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

And he said unto him, `In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?'

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

for every one--whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'

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.

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; — read the full passage →

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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;

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

`Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me; — read the full passage →

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

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

he was also returning, and is sitting on his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.

`Verily, verily, I say to you--He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

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 considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — 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. — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →