Speaking About The Dead

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, — read the full passage →

seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);

Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. — read the full passage →

Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

Therefore is my harpturnedto mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; — read the full passage →

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. — read the full passage →

who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods. — read the full passage →

Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. — read the full passage →

that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, — read the full passage →

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

And the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourthmonth, in the fifthdayof the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.

But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. — read the full passage →

For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

The crown of the wise is their riches; But the folly of fools is only folly.

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; But it is an abomination to fools to depart from evil.

He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, Andtheir dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

Ask of me, and I will givetheethe nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?

That maketh the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, And the chambers of the south;

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? — read the full passage →

The priests the Levites, evenall the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and his inheritance.

And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →