Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →
Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things: — read the full passage →
Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. — read the full passage →
So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. — read the full passage →
saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’ — read the full passage →
You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins, — read the full passage →
If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” — read the full passage →
As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one. — read the full passage →
that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’” — read the full passage →
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →
accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward. — read the full passage →
saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.” — read the full passage →
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. — read the full passage →
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →
Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →
The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk. — read the full passage →
Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ; — read the full passage →
yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world. — read the full passage →
Simon the Canaanite; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. — read the full passage →
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.