Responsibilities

For each man will bear his own burden.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith; — read the full passage →

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

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

But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. — read the full passage →

Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. — read the full passage →

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. — read the full passage →

and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him; — read the full passage →

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. — read the full passage →

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, — read the full passage →

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.

As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent. — read the full passage →

Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on. — read the full passage →

Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Yahweh’s word came to me again, saying, — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

But the people took of the plunder, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.”

Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil. — read the full passage →

Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.”

Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn’t bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Like a muddied spring, and a polluted well, so is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die. — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel. — read the full passage →

They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things; — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. — read the full passage →

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. — read the full passage →

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, — read the full passage →

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

He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”