Satire

A fool hath no delight in understanding, But only that his heart may reveal itself.

A man’s belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied. — read the full passage →

The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, saying, — read the full passage →

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days began, And caused the dayspring to know its place; — read the full passage →

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

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

for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

(Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah: wherefore turn yourselves, and live.

He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot. — read the full passage →

Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. — read the full passage →

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work.

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts. — read the full passage →

Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men. — read the full passage →

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one. — read the full passage →

but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error; — read the full passage →

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

Wherefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.

to whom he also showed himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:

And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.

Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things. — read the full passage →

By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou knowest? — read the full passage →

A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; Butthe simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

The tongue of the righteous isaschoice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth. — read the full passage →

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee; — read the full passage →

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. — read the full passage →

For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God? — read the full passage →

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness; — read the full passage →

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. — read the full passage →

until the day in which he was received up, after that he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written.

There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),

If I told you earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you heavenly things?

It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

The mouth of the righteous talketh of wisdom, And his tongue speaketh justice. — read the full passage →

The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times. — read the full passage →

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way for the lightning of the thunder; — read the full passage →

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, even the blood of Christ:

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? — read the full passage →

But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Brethren, hearken unto me: — read the full passage →

But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?