Satire

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. — read the full passage →

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying, — read the full passage →

“Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place; — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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

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

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.

He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers. — read the full passage →

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

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

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

Then I said, “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 my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!” — read the full passage →

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men. — read the full passage →

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

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

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery 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 everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.” — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit the Kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. — read the full passage →

By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

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

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

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

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; — 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? Will their lack of faith nullify 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 suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. — read the full passage →

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

There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

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

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times. — read the full passage →

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm; — read the full passage →

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 →

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

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.

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

but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

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

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

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, 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 is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me. — read the full passage →

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

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?