Standards

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

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. — read the full passage →

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’”

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

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.

As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging. — read the full passage →

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery.”

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

He answered, “What did Moses command you?”

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

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.

The same was in the beginning with God.

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

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;