Rejection

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

to whom coming--a living stone--by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;

`He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.'

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?

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

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

`Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake-- — read the full passage →

`Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.

for the judgment without kindness <FI>is<Fi> to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

how strait <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; — read the full passage →

but--that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law--They hated me without a cause.

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

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,

`He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

`And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life-- — read the full passage →

who being reviled--was not reviling again, suffering--was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

the last enemy is done away--death;

Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; — read the full passage →

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

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

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. — read the full passage →

`Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake--

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless--

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,

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

And Jesus said to them--`A prophet is not without honour, except in his own country, and among his kindred, and in his own house;'

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

he, therefore, who is despising--doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth-- — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us; — read the full passage →

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

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, — read the full passage →

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

and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

and having come to his own country, he was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and were saying, `Whence to this one this wisdom and the mighty works? — read the full passage →

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

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

and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

`Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — 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 →

And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons; — read the full passage →

and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence--who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, --to which also they were set;

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

because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

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

and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region. — read the full passage →