Seasons

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

and he said unto them, `It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority;

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,

`And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer <FI>is<Fi> nigh,

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good--from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth did pass away, and the sea is not any more;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now <FI>is<Fi> a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --

They say to him, `Evil men--he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'

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;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and he sent unto the husbandmen at the due time a servant, that from the husbandmen he may receive from the fruit of the vineyard,

These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain--early and latter;

`And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: When already its branch may have become tender, and the leaves it may put forth, ye know that summer <FI>is<Fi> nigh, — read the full passage →

I say to you, that He will execute the justice to them quickly; but the Son of Man having come, shall he find the faith upon the earth?'

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple, — read the full passage →

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord <FI>is<Fi> as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land <FI>is<Fi> distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring; — read the full passage →

`Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.

(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all <FI>these<Fi> to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

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.

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

`And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land <FI>is<Fi> distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;