Sovereignty

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

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will,

so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden.

hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will, — read the full passage →

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

which in His own times He shall shew--the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified--ye did slay;

`Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou--Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will are they, and they were created.'

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

`Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father; — read the full passage →

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 the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe--as many as were appointed to life age-during;

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her--

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened. — read the full passage →

because of Him, and through Him, and to Him <FI>are<Fi> the all things; to Him <FI>is<Fi> the glory--to the ages. Amen.

and they sing the song of Moses, servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, `Great and wonderful <FI>are<Fi> Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true <FI>are<Fi> Thy ways, O King of saints,

and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God--the Almighty!

and immediately I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne was set in the heaven, and upon the throne is <FI>one<Fi> sitting,

And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them;

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 →

for gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel, — read the full passage →

according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

and he said, `Because of this I have said to you--No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

all that the Father doth give to me will come unto me; and him who is coming unto me, I may in no wise cast without,

and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things <FI>are<Fi> naked and open to His eyes--with whom is our reckoning.

nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form <FI>it<Fi> , Why me didst thou make thus?

Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

Jesus answered, `Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'

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,

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren; — read the full passage →

`Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? and one of them is not forgotten before God, — read the full passage →

He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart, — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to them, `Verily I say to you, that ye who did follow me, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man may sit upon a throne of his glory, shall sit--ye also--upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel;

but I--I say to you, not to swear at all; neither by the heaven, because it is the throne of God,

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;

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 →

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

Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?' — read the full passage →

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;