Staying Strong

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

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

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me: — read the full passage →

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this <FI>is<Fi> the first command;

and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard <FI>you<Fi> from the evil;

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold; — read the full passage →

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus,

and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us, — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

if any one doth speak--`as oracles of God;' if any one doth minister--`as of the ability which God doth supply;' that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power--to the ages of the ages. Amen.

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses--for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

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.'

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord <FI>is<Fi> with you all!

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering--they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been--

in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might, — read the full passage →

let all your things be done in love.

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;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

In the prayer continue ye, watching in it in thanksgiving;

Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

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

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

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,

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. — read the full passage →

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

and now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.