Steadfast Love

The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies. — read the full passage →

Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age <FI>is<Fi> His kindness. — read the full passage →

Praise Jehovah, all ye nations, Glorify Him, all ye peoples. — read the full passage →

And Thou, O Lord, <FI>art<Fi> God, merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

`And thou hast known that Jehovah thy God He <FI>is<Fi> God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands--to a thousand generations,

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 →

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, — read the full passage →

Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'

Give ye thanks to the God of the heavens, For to the age <FI>is<Fi> His kindness!

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

How precious <FI>is<Fi> Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.

and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

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.

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? — read the full passage →

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; — read the full passage →

A Psalm of Thanksgiving. Shout to Jehovah, all the earth. — read the full passage →

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — read the full passage →

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.

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint,

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

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.

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

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

through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God. — read the full passage →

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

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

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

This I turn to my heart--therefore I hope. — read the full passage →

The heavens--the heavens <FI>are<Fi> Jehovah's, And the earth He hath given to sons of men,

O Jehovah, in the heavens <FI>is<Fi> Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness <FI>is<Fi> unto the clouds.

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son--the only begotten--hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him; — read the full passage →

Ye, then, beloved, knowing before, take heed, lest, together with the error of the impious being led away, ye may fall from your own stedfastness,

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

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

all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> he who is coming In the name of Jehovah, We blessed you from the house of Jehovah,

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

let all your things be done in love.

To Him spreading the earth over the waters, For to the age <FI>is<Fi> His kindness.

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, — read the full passage →

continually pray ye;

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

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

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

and then he shall send his messengers, and gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the end of the earth unto the end of heaven.

To Him making the heavens by understanding, For to the age <FI>is<Fi> His kindness.

A stone the builders refused Hath become head of a corner.

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 →

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

may we hold fast the unwavering profession of the hope, (for faithful <FI>is<Fi> He who did promise),

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

For good <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, to the age His kindness, And to generation and generation His faithfulness!

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;

The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love; — read the full passage →

`And--praying--ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one--the son of her womb? Yea, these forget--but I--I forget not thee. — read the full passage →

Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down--they tread upon it.

Who <FI>is<Fi> wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!

`When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom; — read the full passage →

the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant--for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

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

and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

and the stars of the heaven shall be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Better <FI>is<Fi> an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.

For whom Jehovah loveth He reproveth, Even as a father the son He is pleased with.

<FI> Aleph.<Fi> O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah, — read the full passage →

Cause Thy face to shine on Thy servant, Save me in Thy kindness.