Self Destruction

Before destruction <FI>is<Fi> pride, And before stumbling--a haughty spirit.'

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour <FI>is<Fi> humility.

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 →

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;

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.

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,

and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.

Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.

The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool <FI>is<Fi> near ruin.

Ruin and misery <FI>are<Fi> in their ways.

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

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.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

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 I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips--ruin to him!

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Better <FI>is<Fi> the slow to anger than the mighty, And the ruler over his spirit than he who is taking a city.

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!

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 greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

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;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

The fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

`And I, the glory that thou hast given to me, have given to them, that they may be one as we are one; — read the full passage →

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us, — read the full passage →

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

He sendeth His word and healeth them, And delivereth from their destructions.

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail <FI>doth<Fi> her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

A city broken down without walls, <FI>Is<Fi> a man without restraint over his spirit!

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

The thing that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God <FI>is<Fi> for us, who <FI>is<Fi> against us?

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit;

and the Devil, who is leading them astray, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where <FI>are<Fi> the beast and the false prophet, and they shall be tormented day and night--to the ages of the ages.

`Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

Then shall he say also to those on the left hand, Go ye from me, the cursed, to the fire, the age-during, that hath been prepared for the Devil and his messengers;

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

for if any one doth think <FI>himself<Fi> to be something--being nothing--himself he doth deceive;

to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

A voice of a cry <FI>is<Fi> from Horonaim, Spoiling and great destruction.

Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts <FI>are<Fi> thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction <FI>are<Fi> in their highways.

Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.'

An abomination to Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.

and they have over them a king--the messenger of the abyss--a name <FI>is<Fi> to him in Hebrew, Abaddon, and in the Greek he hath a name, Apollyon.

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 →

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

who shall suffer justice--destruction age-during--from the face of the Lord, and from the glory of his strength,

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

`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.

and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

Rise and go, for this <FI>is<Fi> not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.

Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

The pride of man humbleth him, And humility of spirit upholdeth honour.

The heart of man deviseth his way, And Jehovah establisheth his step.