Selling Livestock

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

The same was in the beginning with God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.

Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion. — read the full passage →

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”

When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.” — read the full passage →

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. — read the full passage →

“If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

“You shall not commit adultery.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

All who believed were together, and had all things in common. — read the full passage →

The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there. — read the full passage →

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — 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.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up, — read the full passage →

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

While they were there, the day had come for her to give birth. — read the full passage →

When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, — read the full passage →

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. — read the full passage →

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.” — read the full passage →

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities. — read the full passage →

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. — read the full passage →

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. — read the full passage →

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying, — read the full passage →

For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no wine.”

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

saying, “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God, and didn’t respect man.

Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

and said to them, “Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him, and bring him.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.