Spirit Of Distraction

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

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man--to the age; in their erring they <FI>are<Fi> flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

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;

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;

By David. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And all my inward parts--His Holy Name. — read the full passage →

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

Dost thou not do this to thyself? <FI>By<Fi> thy forsaking Jehovah thy God, At the time He is leading thee in the way?

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest <FI>it<Fi> to them, — read the full passage →

And Jesus answering said to her, `Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things, — read the full passage →

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;

Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly. — read the full passage →

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

to the establishing your hearts blameless in sanctification before our God and Father, in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

for not even were his brethren believing in him.

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

`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.

As a bird by wandering, as a swallow by flying, So reviling without cause doth not come.

My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear, — read the full passage →

to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.

And prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam--Enoch--saying, `Lo, the Lord did come in His saintly myriads,

for it is impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,

ye <FI>are<Fi> witnesses--God also--how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

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 yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,