Satire

A fool delighteth not in understanding, But--in uncovering his heart.

From the fruit of a man's mouth is his belly satisfied, <FI>From the<Fi> increase of his lips he is satisfied. — read the full passage →

Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah: — read the full passage →

Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place? — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

in reference to dishonour I speak, how that we were weak, and in whatever any one is bold--in foolishness I say <FI>it<Fi> --I also am bold.

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

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it--shame, And a reprover of the wicked--his blemish. — read the full passage →

Be not led astray, my brethren beloved; — read the full passage →

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master--to every good work having been prepared,

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; — read the full passage →

`And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment; — read the full passage →

And I say, `Woe to me, for I have been silent, For a man--unclean of lips <FI>am<Fi> I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.' — read the full passage →

Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. — read the full passage →

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie; — read the full passage →

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart; — read the full passage →

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray, — read the full passage →

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law--to do them,' — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

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

so, then, nothing before the time judge ye, till the Lord may come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of the darkness, and will manifest the counsels of the hearts, and then the praise shall come to each from God.

to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

and again another Writing saith, `They shall look to him whom they did pierce.'

Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am <FI>he<Fi> ; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak; — read the full passage →

From their fruits ye shall know them; do <FI>men<Fi> gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs? — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches, — read the full passage →

Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What <FI>is<Fi> His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest! — read the full passage →

The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

The tongue of the righteous <FI>is<Fi> chosen silver, The heart of the wicked--as a little thing. — read the full passage →

My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up 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 certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless? — read the full passage →

for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek. — read the full passage →

till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up,

And there are also many other things--as many as Jesus did--which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.

There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the <FI>sons<Fi> of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants <FI>are<Fi> as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

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

Sayings of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> pure sayings; Silver tried in a furnace of earth refined sevenfold. — read the full passage →

Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down--his tongue?

Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices? — read the full passage →

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

and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition, — read the full passage →

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--Christ's--

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

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

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews,

and after they are silent, James answered, saying, `Men, brethren, hearken to me; — read the full passage →

And there came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, and they having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, drew him outside of the city, having supposed him to be dead;

Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?