Relationship With God

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

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.

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;

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

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.

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him: — read the full passage →

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?' — read the full passage →

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

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

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;

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

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

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

for my flesh truly is food, and my blood truly is drink; — read the full passage →

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses. — read the full passage →

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

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

because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit, — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness, — read the full passage →

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

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,

and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!'

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

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

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

A man with friends <FI>is<Fi> to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

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 →

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

And Thou, O Lord, <FI>art<Fi> God, merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.

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 →

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

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

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things. — read the full passage →

be strong and courageous, fear not, nor be terrified because of them, for Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> He who is going with thee; He doth not fail thee nor forsake thee.'

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

From afar Jehovah hath appeared to me, With love age-during I have loved thee, Therefore I have drawn thee <FI>with<Fi> kindness.

But those expecting Jehovah pass <FI>to<Fi> power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; — read the full passage →

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

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

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 →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us? — read the full passage →

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

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

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 →

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

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--

`And ye have called Me, and have gone, and have prayed unto Me, and I have hearkened unto you, — read the full passage →

But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you--from hearing.

for if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in his life. — read the full passage →

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

To the Overseer. --An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God. — read the full passage →

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them. — read the full passage →

For--to the age he is not moved; For a memorial age-during is the righteous. — read the full passage →

and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; — read the full passage →

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead, — read the full passage →

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

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.

Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'

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

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 →

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

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

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