Strive

`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able; — read the full passage →

and straight paths make for your feet, that that which is lame may not be turned aside, but rather be healed; — read the full passage →

so, as much as in me is, I am ready also to you who <FI>are<Fi> in Rome to proclaim good news, — read the full passage →

and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

Jesus answered, `My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — read the full passage →

and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you. — read the full passage →

And Jesus responded to them, saying, `The hour hath come that the Son of Man may be glorified; — read the full passage →

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

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint, — read the full passage →

and into whatever house ye do enter, first say, Peace to this house; — read the full passage →

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it; — read the full passage →

and the enemies of a man are those of his household. — read the full passage →

`Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens; — read the full passage →

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

`Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it; — read the full passage →

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens is perfect.

but I--I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other; — read the full passage →

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

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit; — read the full passage →

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: -- — read the full passage →

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

These things remind <FI>them<Fi> of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing; — read the full passage →

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness; — read the full passage →

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!

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others. — read the full passage →

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ, — read the full passage →

but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power; — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them; — read the full passage →

Let not, then, your good be evil spoken of, — read the full passage →

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;' — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

who shall render to each according to his works; — read the full passage →

and now I say to you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone, because if this counsel or this work may be of men, it will be overthrown, — read the full passage →

already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you; — read the full passage →

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;

`And to every one who is asking of thee, be giving; and from him who is taking away thy goods, be not asking again; — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter;

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire--in nothing lacking; — read the full passage →

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;' — read the full passage →

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during, — read the full passage →

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil; — read the full passage →

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil; — read the full passage →

for he had known that because of envy they had delivered him up.

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, — read the full passage →

May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

and a certain one said to him, `Sir, are those saved few?' and he said unto them, — read the full passage →