Resting

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, — read the full passage →

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 →

`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 →

The salt <FI>is<Fi> good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season <FI>it<Fi> ? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing? — read the full passage →

`Happy the poor in spirit--because theirs is the reign of the heavens. — read the full passage →

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God <FI>is<Fi> with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them--their God, — read the full passage →

And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying, — read the full passage →

and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this--the life--is in His Son; — read the full passage →

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

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: -- — read the full passage →

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways; — read the full passage →

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil-- — read the full passage →

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear — read the full passage →

For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands, — read the full passage →

and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord <FI>is<Fi> with you all!

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

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

having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been; — read the full passage →

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

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

when, therefore, Jesus received the vinegar, he said, `It hath been finished;' and having bowed the head, gave up the spirit.

`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;

he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe; — read the full passage →

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.'

Because of this I say to you, all whatever--praying--ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.

but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy <FI>are ye<Fi> ! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,

`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 →

and into whatever house ye do enter, first say, Peace to this house; — read the full passage →

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short, — read the full passage →