Standards

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father’s house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: — read the full passage →

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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

The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. — read the full passage →

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

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

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging: — read the full passage →

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

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

And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. — read the full passage →

And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:

(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

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

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting 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 say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. — read the full passage →

Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, — read the full passage →

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan set forward, which was the rereward of all the camps throughout their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.

And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Thou shalt not kill.

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;