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Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Thus says Yahweh, “Don’t learn the way of the nations, and don’t be dismayed at the signs of the sky; for the nations are dismayed at them. — read the full passage →

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed. — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? — read the full passage →

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good. — read the full passage →

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith— — read the full passage →

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life. — read the full passage →

Why are you red in your clothing, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death, — read the full passage →

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; — read the full passage →

for we walk by faith, not by sight. — read the full passage →

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.” — read the full passage →

He left everything, and rose up and followed him. — read the full passage →

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions. — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. — read the full passage →

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it. — read the full passage →

He said, “Tomorrow.” He said, “Be it according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh our God.

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline? — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion. — read the full passage →

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it. — read the full passage →

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you. — read the full passage →

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. — read the full passage →

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it. — read the full passage →

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.” — read the full passage →

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. — read the full passage →

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood; — read the full passage →

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. — read the full passage →

Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

For, “He who would love life, and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. — read the full passage →

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds. — read the full passage →

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts; — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances, — read the full passage →

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. — read the full passage →

But you did not learn Christ that way; — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. — read the full passage →

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.” — read the full passage →

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me. — read the full passage →

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia; — read the full passage →

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him. — read the full passage →

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies. — read the full passage →

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn’t send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart. — read the full passage →

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you. — read the full passage →

For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies. — read the full passage →

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. — read the full passage →

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. — read the full passage →

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! — read the full passage →

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. — read the full passage →

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart. — read the full passage →

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure. — read the full passage →

“If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit — read the full passage →

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment? — read the full passage →

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. — read the full passage →

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

A spirit came out, stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’ “Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ — read the full passage →

Yahweh didn’t make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. — read the full passage →