Stone Circles

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. — read the full passage →

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand, of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, — read the full passage →

Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ. — read the full passage →

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, — read the full passage →

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. — read the full passage →

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn’t say, “To seeds”, as of many, but as of one, “To your seed”, which is Christ.

Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles); — read the full passage →

and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

and all the brothers who are with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; — read the full passage →

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

The commanding officer answered, “I bought my citizenship for a great price.” Paul said, “But I was born a Roman.”

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. — read the full passage →

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know, — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

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.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. — read the full passage →

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me. — read the full passage →

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. — read the full passage →

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. — read the full passage →

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. — read the full passage →

Now while they were going, behold, some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all the things that had happened. — read the full passage →

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. — read the full passage →

Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. — read the full passage →

Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

and he sent and beheaded John in the prison. — read the full passage →

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. — read the full passage →

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? — read the full passage →

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, — read the full passage →