Speaking About The Dead

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him. — read the full passage →

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

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

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

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

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

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. — read the full passage →

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

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

Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will 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 will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

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

who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

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

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

“For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

The kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole sky, 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 in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You 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 the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.

But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to 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 food, 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 the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. — read the full passage →

For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

Can you lead the constellations out in their season? Or can you guide the Bear with her cubs?

He makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the rooms of the south.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? — read the full passage →

The priests the Levites, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire and his portion.

Yahweh spoke to 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 had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, — read the full passage →