Setting Goals

The purposes of the diligent <FI>are<Fi> only to advantage, And of every hasty one, only to want.

And Jehovah answereth me and saith: `Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it. — read the full passage →

and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth-- — read the full passage →

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.

to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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

Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field--go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

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.

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal--<FI> even<Fi> God.'

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

Enlarge the place of thy tent, And the curtains of thy tabernacles they stretch out, Restrain not--lengthen thy cords, And thy pins make strong.

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

and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him <FI>is<Fi> the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

Without a Vision is a people made naked, And whoso is keeping the law, O his happiness!

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' — read the full passage →

and all--as much as ye may ask in the prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Roll unto Jehovah thy works, And established are thy purposes,

And Jesus said to them, `Through your want of faith; for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you,

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

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.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; — read the full passage →

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

Without counsel <FI>is<Fi> the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

and now also finish doing <FI>it<Fi> , that even as <FI>there is<Fi> the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have, — read the full passage →

Many <FI>are<Fi> the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.

The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.

have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain; — read the full passage →

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?

He doth give to thee according to thy heart, And all thy counsel doth fulfil.

In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward, — read the full passage →

Better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in man,

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself--my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye--ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

And the noble counselled noble things, And he for noble things riseth up.

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, — read the full passage →

A desire accomplished is sweet to the soul, And an abomination to fools <FI>is<Fi> : Turn from evil.

A Song of the Ascents, by Solomon. If Jehovah doth not build the house, In vain have its builders laboured at it, If Jehovah doth not watch a city, In vain hath a watchman waked.

Every prudent one dealeth with knowledge, And a fool spreadeth out folly.

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah.

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

And Jesus answered them, `My Father till now doth work, and I work;'

And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart. — read the full passage →

And Abraham <FI>is<Fi> old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all <FI>things<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

The one edge <FI>is<Fi> fixed on the north over-against Michmash, and the one on the south over-against Gibeah. — read the full passage →

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, — read the full passage →

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing? — read the full passage →

If thou dost turn from the sabbath thy foot, Doing thine own pleasure on My holy day, And hast cried to the sabbath, `A delight,' To the holy of Jehovah, `Honoured,' And hast honoured it, without doing thine own ways, Without finding thine own pleasure, And speaking a word. — read the full passage →

Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;' — read the full passage →

and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, `Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord--how they are.'

I have known, O Jehovah, that not of man <FI>is<Fi> his way, Not of man the going and establishing of his step. — read the full passage →

and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;

And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

Ye--go ye up to this feast; I do not yet go up to this feast, because my time hath not yet been fulfilled;' — read the full passage →

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

O the happiness of a man <FI>who<Fi> hath found wisdom, And of a man <FI>who<Fi> bringeth forth understanding. — read the full passage →

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him, — read the full passage →

And he went forth thence, and came to his own country, and his disciples do follow him, — read the full passage →

`The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened,

Of man <FI>are<Fi> arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue. — read the full passage →

because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done--to stand.

in regard to the dispensation of the fulness of the times, to bring into one the whole in the Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth--in him;

And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation, — 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,

And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

to whom God did will to make known what <FI>is<Fi> the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations--which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

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

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain; — read the full passage →

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister-- — read the full passage →

And Jehovah answereth me and saith: `Write a vision, and explain on the tables, That he may run who is reading it. — read the full passage →

and at the manifestation of the chief Shepherd, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it <FI>is<Fi> great on man: — read the full passage →

Establish to Thy servant Thy saying, That <FI>is<Fi> concerning Thy fear. — read the full passage →

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,

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .