Spiritual Depression

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

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 →

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him. — read the full passage →

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

I and the Father are one.”

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, — read the full passage →

All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. — read the full passage →

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.

He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone. — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ — read the full passage →

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehennaas yourselves.

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. — read the full passage →

You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

then hear from heaven, your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”

When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars; — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.