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For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor. — read the full passage →

And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who <FI>are<Fi> in the world--to the end he loved them. — read the full passage →

And Jesus answering said, `Verily I say to you, there is no one who left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my sake, and for the good news', — read the full passage →

And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated, and no city or house having been divided against itself, doth stand, — read the full passage →

In those days, and at that time, I cause to shoot up to David a shoot of righteousness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness in the earth. — read the full passage →

If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.

And in his being humbled, turned back from him hath the wrath of Jehovah, so as not to destroy to completion; and also, in Judah there have been good things.

These who are coming in by name <FI>are<Fi> princes in their families, and the house of their fathers have broken forth into a multitude; — read the full passage →

and God saith unto him, `Because that thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thee many days, nor asked for thee riches, nor asked the life of thine enemies, and hast asked for thee discernment to understand judgment, — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

I have been inquired of by those who asked not, I have been found by those who sought Me not, I have said, `Behold Me, behold Me,' Unto a nation not calling in My name. — read the full passage →

Bless, ye peoples, our God, And sound the voice of His praise, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for <FI>it is<Fi> not as man seeth--for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.' — read the full passage →

and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation, — read the full passage →

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; — read the full passage →

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear; — read the full passage →

And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you, — read the full passage →

and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham-- — read the full passage →

whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe. — read the full passage →

judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.' — read the full passage →

in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; — read the full passage →

And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: `Happy the poor--because yours is the reign of God. — read the full passage →

`And that sown toward the thorns, this is he who is hearing the word, and the anxiety of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, do choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. — read the full passage →

For near <FI>is<Fi> the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head. — read the full passage →

`Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease. — read the full passage →

Ah, sinning nation, a people heavy <FI>with<Fi> iniquity, A seed of evil doers, sons--corrupters! They have forsaken Jehovah, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have gone away backward. — read the full passage →

Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart. — read the full passage →

For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four--it is not able to bear: — read the full passage →

Great <FI>is<Fi> the Former of all, And He is rewarding a fool, And is rewarding transgressors. — read the full passage →

Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out. — read the full passage →

To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice. — read the full passage →

The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth. — read the full passage →

When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him. — read the full passage →

The ransom of a man's life <FI>are<Fi> his riches, And the poor hath not heard rebuke. — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread. — read the full passage →

Jehovah causeth not the soul of the righteous to hunger, And the desire of the wicked He thrusteth away. — read the full passage →

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from an evil man, From one of violence Thou keepest me. — read the full passage →

And they cry unto Jehovah in their adversity, From their distresses He saveth them. — read the full passage →

They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together, — read the full passage →

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them. — read the full passage →

Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples. — read the full passage →

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave <FI>it<Fi> , Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper. — read the full passage →

That--I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise. — read the full passage →

If I sinned, then Thou hast observed me, And from mine iniquity dost not acquit me, — read the full passage →

A man there hath been in the land of Uz--Job his name--and that man hath been perfect and upright--both fearing God, and turning aside from evil. — read the full passage →

And I proclaim there a fast, by the river Ahava, to afflict ourselves before our God, to seek from Him a right way for us, and for our infants, and for all our substance, — read the full passage →

and he buildeth towers in the wilderness, and diggeth many wells, for he had much cattle, both in the low country and in the plain, husbandmen and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel; for he was a lover of the ground.

and many days <FI>are<Fi> to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, — read the full passage →

And he saith, `Fear not, for more <FI>are<Fi> they who <FI>are<Fi> with us than they who <FI>are<Fi> with them.'

and it hath been, from the brook thou dost drink, and the ravens I have commanded to sustain thee there.' — read the full passage →

And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, `For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.' — read the full passage →

for from Jehovah it hath been to strengthen their heart, to meet in battle with Israel, in order to devote them, so that they have no grace, but in order to destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

In the Most High causing nations to inherit, In His separating sons of Adam--He setteth up the borders of the peoples By the number of the sons of Israel.

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put <FI>it<Fi> in a secret place, --and all the people have answered and said, Amen. — read the full passage →

`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemy, and hast seen horse and chariot--a people more numerous than thou--thou art not afraid of them, for Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> with thee, who is bringing thee up out of the land of Egypt; — read the full passage →

if Jehovah hath delighted in us, then He hath brought us in unto this land, and hath given it to us, a land which is flowing with milk and honey; — read the full passage →

keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third <FI>generation<Fi> , and on a fourth.' — read the full passage →

`Thou hast no other Gods before Me. — read the full passage →

Jehovah doth fight for you, and ye keep silent.' — read the full passage →

and I say unto thee, Send away My son, and he doth serve Me; and--thou dost refuse to send him away--lo, I am slaying thy son, thy first-born.'

And Isaac saith unto his son, `What <FI>is<Fi> this thou hast hasted to find, my son?' and he saith, `That which Jehovah thy God hath caused to come before me.' — read the full passage →

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;

and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death; — read the full passage →

and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of, — read the full passage →

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, — read the full passage →

for he is our peace, who did make both one, and the middle wall of the enclosure did break down, — read the full passage →

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

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 →

And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee--may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money; — read the full passage →

a field being his, having sold <FI>it<Fi> , brought the money and laid <FI>it<Fi> at the feet of the apostles. — read the full passage →

and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake; — read the full passage →

And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me; — read the full passage →

and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. — read the full passage →

And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea, — read the full passage →

Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts. — read the full passage →

And I have gathered all the nations unto Jerusalem to battle, And captured hath been the city, And spoiled have been the houses, And the women are lain with, Gone forth hath half the city in a removal, And the remnant of the people are not cut off from the city. — read the full passage →

Burden of Nineveh. The Book of the Vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is--to God. — read the full passage →

Thus hath the Lord Jehovah shewed me, and, lo, a basket of summer-fruit. — read the full passage →

`Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife <FI>is<Fi> to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land, — read the full passage →

and it hath come to pass, ye separate it for an inheritance to yourselves, and to the sojourners who are sojourning in your midst, who have begotten sons in your midst, and they have been to you as native, with the sons of Israel, with you they are separated for an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.

And the sons of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not pondered, As to them--their way is not pondered. — read the full passage →

Lo, thou <FI>art<Fi> wiser than Daniel, No hidden thing have they concealed from thee. — read the full passage →

And ye have said, Wherefore hath not the son, Borne of the iniquity of the father? And--the son judgment and righteousness hath done, All My statutes he hath kept, And he doeth them, he surely liveth. — read the full passage →

Ye multiplied your wounded in this city, And filled its out-places with the wounded. — read the full passage →

The violence hath risen to a rod of wickedness, There is none of them, nor of their multitude, Nor of their noise, nor is there wailing for them. — read the full passage →

Doing kindness to thousands, and recompensing iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their sons after them; God, the great, the mighty, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name,

A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, <FI>Is<Fi> one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end--he is a fool. — read the full passage →

And, O Jehovah, cause me to know, and I know, Then Thou hast showed me their doings. — read the full passage →

And I--I said, `Surely these <FI>are<Fi> poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God. — read the full passage →

Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins; — read the full passage →

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, doing all these things.' — read the full passage →

Lo, for righteousness doth a king reign, As to princes, for judgment they rule. — read the full passage →

The burden of Egypt. Lo, Jehovah is riding on a swift thick cloud, And He hath entered Egypt, And moved have been the idols of Egypt at His presence, And the heart of Egypt melteth in its midst. — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness. — read the full passage →

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together! — read the full passage →