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Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

“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.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

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.

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Abstain from every form of evil.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Don’t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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 →

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

“You shall not murder.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — 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 →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. — read the full passage →

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap out.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. — read the full passage →

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. — read the full passage →

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

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.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.