Speaking With The Dead

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

for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

and no wonder--for even the Adversary doth transform himself into a messenger of light;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day, — read the full passage →

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not a God of dead men, but of living.'

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

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

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

For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast <FI>them<Fi> down to Tartarus, did deliver <FI>them<Fi> to judgment, having been reserved,

And evening having come, they brought to him many demoniacs, and he did cast out the spirits with a word, and did heal all who were ill,

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

yet Michael, the chief messenger, when, with the devil contending, he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil-speaking judgment, but said, `The Lord rebuke thee!'

for there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they shall give great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, also the chosen.

And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints,

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy, — read the full passage →

And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John his brother, and doth bring them up to a high mount by themselves, — read the full passage →

And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, and James, and John his brother, and doth bring them up to a high mount by themselves, — read the full passage →

and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'

`Verily, verily, I say to you--There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

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 →

`Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

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.

Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;

we have courage, and are well pleased rather to be away from the home of the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

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!

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

`And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, `Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;' — read the full passage →

`And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive--thou--thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed; — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

and if Christ <FI>is<Fi> in you, the body, indeed, <FI>is<Fi> dead because of sin, and the Spirit <FI>is<Fi> life because of righteousness,

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

<FI> him,<Fi> whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

`Men, brethren! it is permitted to speak with freedom unto you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is among us unto this day;

whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God--ever living to make intercession for them.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, -- — read the full passage →

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.

for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God,

for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

`And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham--and the rich man also died, and was buried;

And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers,

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed; — read the full passage →

<FI> no,<Fi> but that the things that the nations sacrifice--they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not wish you to come into the fellowship of the demons. — read the full passage →

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise--in your hearts;