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in wisdom walk ye toward those without, the time forestalling;

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 →

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

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,

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive <FI>for<Fi> the widow.

`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another. — read the full passage →

Open thy mouth, judge righteously, Both the cause of the poor and needy!'

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.

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

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 is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give to him bread and raiment.

`Ye do not do perversity in judgment; thou dost not lift up the face of the poor, nor honour the face of the great; in righteousness thou dost judge thy fellow.

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

and Jesus having taken up <FI>the word<Fi> , said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving <FI>him<Fi> half dead. — read the full passage →

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings--

and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

honour thy father and mother,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

let it not be! we who died to the sin--how shall we still live in it?

no more as a servant, but above a servant--a brother beloved, especially to me, and how much more to thee, both in the flesh and in the Lord!

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

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

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

not that in respect of want I say <FI>it<Fi> , for I did learn in the things in which I am--to be content;

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

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

`And a sojourner thou dost not oppress, and ye--ye have known the soul of the sojourner, for sojourners ye have been in the land of Egypt.

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

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

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

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 →

`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

The Rock! --perfect <FI>is<Fi> His work, For all His ways <FI>are<Fi> just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright <FI>is<Fi> He.

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, --and all the people have said, Amen.

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, — read the full passage →

having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

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.

when the Christ--our life--may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

a servant--wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free--use <FI>it<Fi> rather;

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 →

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change. — read the full passage →

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

and this <FI>is<Fi> the matter of the release: Every owner of a loan <FI>is<Fi> to release his hand which he doth lift up against his neighbour, he doth not exact of his neighbour and of his brother, but hath proclaimed a release to Jehovah;

Every creeping thing that is alive, to you it is for food; as the green herb I have given to you the whole;

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

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.

if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and to the teaching according to piety,

for each one his own burden shall bear.

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right--and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine,

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping, — read the full passage →

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

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, — read the full passage →

and they, having disregarded <FI>it<Fi> , went away, the one to his own field, and the other to his merchandise;

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand, — read the full passage →

These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

kindness to you, and peace, and love, be multiplied!

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman--but the all and in all--Christ.

through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

The soul that doth sin--it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

For I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.

The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

To do justice <FI>is<Fi> joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity.

Thou--Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

And it cometh to pass on the third day, that Esther putteth on royalty, and standeth in the inner-court of the house of the king over-against the house of the king, and the king is sitting on his royal throne, in the royal-house, over-against the opening of the house, — read the full passage →

`Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause <FI>others<Fi> to turn aside;

forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

or he who is exhorting--`In the exhortation!' he who is sharing--`In simplicity!' he who is leading--`In diligence?' he who is doing kindness--`In cheerfulness.'

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance, — read the full passage →

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

in the day of your sacrificing it is eaten, and on the morrow, and that which is left unto the third day with fire is burnt,

These <FI>are<Fi> births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

A wise son--the instruction of a father, And a scorner--he hath not heard rebuke. — read the full passage →

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;

and the righteousness of God <FI>is<Fi> through the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, --for there is no difference, — read the full passage →