Sound Mind

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

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.

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

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;

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

An imagination supported Thou fortifiest peace--peace! For in Thee it is confident.

for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we--we have the mind of Christ.

For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands, — read the full passage →

and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.

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

and I fear, lest, as the serpent did beguile Eve in his subtilty, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that <FI>is<Fi> in the Christ;

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

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

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; — read the full passage →

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;

Ye--of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who <FI>is<Fi> in you, than he who is in the world.

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

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 the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power--

Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah.

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,

And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,

and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these--the two prophets--did torment those dwelling upon the land.'

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

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

for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

Jesus who <FI>is<Fi> from Nazareth--how God did anoint him with the Holy Spirit and power; who went through, doing good, and healing all those oppressed by the devil, because God was with him;

And Jesus turned back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a fame went forth through all the region round about concerning him,

and they come unto Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded--him having had the legion--and they were afraid;

For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ--this one is not His;

And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

And the messenger who is speaking with me doth turn back, and stir me up as one who is stirred up out of his sleep, — read the full passage →

and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth; — read the full passage →

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

`Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood, — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose, — read the full passage →

In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, — read the full passage →

therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;

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 →

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;

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

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

`Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do--that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

And hath been the stedfastness of thy times, The strength of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge, Fear of Jehovah--it <FI>is<Fi> His treasure.

`Jehovah bless thee and keep thee; — read the full passage →

For not to messengers did He subject the coming world, concerning which we speak,

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been born of the Spirit is spirit.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not.

The law of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> stedfast, Making wise the simple,

and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love,

my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

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 →

watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.'

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Mine <FI>is<Fi> counsel and substance, I <FI>am<Fi> understanding, I have might.

My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed.