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See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

Thus said Jehovah: Unto the way of the nations accustom not yourselves, And by the signs of the heavens be not affrighted, For the nations are affrighted by them. — read the full passage →

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices, — read the full passage →

These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after, — 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, — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> lying lips, And stedfast doers <FI>are<Fi> his delight.

Lo, <FI>in<Fi> this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.

and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude? — read the full passage →

so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

Far <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah from the wicked, And the prayer of the righteous He heareth.

In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good. — read the full passage →

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: -- — read the full passage →

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

and ye may not call <FI>any<Fi> your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

The end of humility <FI>is<Fi> the fear of Jehovah, Riches, and honour, and life. — read the full passage →

`Wherefore <FI>is<Fi> thy clothing red? And thy garments as treading in a wine fat?'

Better <FI>is<Fi> the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also <FI>is<Fi> vanity and vexation of spirit.

As <FI>one<Fi> pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death, — read the full passage →

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, — read the full passage →

for through faith we walk, not through sight-- — read the full passage →

for see your calling, brethren, that not many <FI>are<Fi> wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.' — read the full passage →

and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him. — read the full passage →

And he--gloomy at the word--went away sorrowing, for he was having many possessions. — read the full passage →

`Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword; — read the full passage →

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

and the truth shall make you free.'

And Jesus said to them, `I am the bread of the life; he who is coming unto me may not hunger, and he who is believing in me may not thirst--at any time;

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

The blessing of Jehovah--it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it. — read the full passage →

and he saith, `To-morrow.' And he saith, According to thy word <FI>it is<Fi> , so that thou knowest that there is none like Jehovah our God,

if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? — read the full passage →

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

Lo, that which I have seen: <FI>It is<Fi> good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it <FI> is<Fi> his portion. — read the full passage →

Honey thou hast found--eat thy sufficiency, Lest thou be satiated <FI>with<Fi> it, and hast vomited it. — read the full passage →

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together, — read the full passage →

who shall render to each according to his works; — read the full passage →

and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him. — read the full passage →

He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: To him who is overcoming, I will give to him to eat from the hidden manna, and will give to him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, that no one knew except him who is receiving <FI>it<Fi> . — read the full passage →

And He who is sitting upon the throne said, `Lo, new I make all things; and He saith to me, `Write, because these words are true and stedfast;' — read the full passage →

And I saw the heaven having been opened, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness doth he judge and war,

and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom, — read the full passage →

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood, — read the full passage →

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do, — read the full passage →

every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, <FI>he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also.<Fi> — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips--not to speak guile;

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter; — 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--

in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages; — read the full passage →

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners--first of whom I am;

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances? — read the full passage →

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God. — read the full passage →

and ye did not so learn the Christ, — read the full passage →

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others, — read the full passage →

and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham-- — read the full passage →

O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me: — read the full passage →

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, — read the full passage →

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; — read the full passage →

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him, — read the full passage →

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' --and they were being stumbled at him.

Then come unto Jesus do they from Jerusalem--scribes and Pharisees--saying, — read the full passage →

I have hated--I have loathed your festivals, And I am not refreshed by your restraints. — read the full passage →

Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

`And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.

And Jehovah saith unto me: Falsehood the prophets are prophesying in My name, I did not send them, nor command them, Nor have I spoken unto them: A false vision, and divination, and vanity, And the deceit of their own heart, they are prophesying to you. — read the full passage →

The prophets have prophesied falsely, And the priests bear rule by their means, And My people have loved <FI>it<Fi> so, And what do they at its latter end?

Then thou seest, and hast become bright, And thine heart hath been afraid and enlarged, For turn unto thee doth the multitude of the sea, The forces of nations do come to thee. — read the full passage →

For My sake, for Mine own sake, I do <FI>it<Fi> , For how is it polluted? And Mine honour to another I give not.

Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense--an abomination it <FI>is<Fi> to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity--and a restraint! — read the full passage →

And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou <FI>art<Fi> a man of appetite. — read the full passage →

The making of treasures by a lying tongue, <FI>Is<Fi> a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

Better <FI>is<Fi> the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse <FI>in<Fi> his lips, who <FI>is<Fi> a fool. — read the full passage →

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →

He dwelleth not in my house who is working deceit, Whoso is speaking lies Is not established before mine eyes.

To the Overseer. --`On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob. — read the full passage →

The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, — read the full passage →

Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart. — read the full passage →

Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou--Thou dost uphold my lot. — read the full passage →

If I have walked with vanity, And my foot doth hasten to deceit, — read the full passage →

That the singing of the wicked <FI>is<Fi> short, And the joy of the profane for a moment, — read the full passage →

And yet, ye <FI>are<Fi> forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought--all of you, — read the full passage →

And I say, `Not good <FI>is<Fi> the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

And go out doth the spirit, and stand before Jehovah, and saith, I do entice him; and Jehovah saith unto him, With what? — read the full passage →

not with our fathers hath Jehovah made this covenant, but with us; we--these--here to-day--all of us alive. — read the full passage →