Repeating Sin

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice, — read the full passage →

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do.

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, — read the full passage →

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires. — 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,

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

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

What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

for <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? — read the full passage →

and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

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,

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

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

if we may say--`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord: — read the full passage →

if any one may not remain in me, he was cast forth without as the branch, and was withered, and they gather them, and cast to fire, and they are burned;

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

for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit;

and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

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.

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

<FI> Beth.<Fi> With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe--according to Thy word.

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

who the righteous judgment of God having known--that those practising such things are worthy of death--not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

and then I will acknowledge to them, that--I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

who also shall confirm you unto the end--unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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

`Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard--to that day.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

For seven <FI>times<Fi> doth the righteous fall and rise, And the wicked stumble in evil.

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field, — read the full passage →

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, — read the full passage →

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

for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; — read the full passage →

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

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; — read the full passage →

Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near,

Desist, and know that I <FI>am<Fi> God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness, — read the full passage →

for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' — read the full passage →

that through two immutable things, in which <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before <FI>us<Fi> ,

waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

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

This I turn to my heart--therefore I hope. — read the full passage →

And a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets hath cried unto Elisha, saying, `Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou hast known that thy servant was fearing Jehovah, and the lender hath come to take my two children to him for servants.' — read the full passage →

and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety, — read the full passage →

`And the person who doth <FI>aught<Fi> with a high hand--of the native or of the sojourner--Jehovah he is reviling, and that person hath been cut off from the midst of his people; — read the full passage →

out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but--that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny <FI>Him<Fi> , being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

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 →

According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on <FI>it<Fi> , — read the full passage →

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you; — read the full passage →

`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.

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.

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

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

These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

and this is the promise that He did promise us--the life the age-during.

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,

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God; — read the full passage →

`Happy they whose lawless acts were forgiven, and whose sins were covered;

They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, `Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me; — read the full passage →

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me, — read the full passage →

`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;

all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,

`And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up, — read the full passage →

to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him; — read the full passage →

He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, `For nought is Job fearing God? — read the full passage →

who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

looking to the author and perfecter of faith--Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him--did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God--ever living to make intercession for them.

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me, — read the full passage →

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

As a dog hath returned to its vomit, A fool is repeating his folly.

The prudent hath seen the evil, and is hidden, And the simple have passed on, and are punished.

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth--the good news of your salvation--in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise, — read the full passage →