Striving

`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;

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God, — read the full passage →

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

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, — read the full passage →

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.

`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

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;

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,' — 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 I call upon you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in the prayers for me unto 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. — read the full passage →

`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 →

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;

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

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,

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

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,

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

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

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

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;

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate, — read the full passage →

lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

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,

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

`Happy the clean in heart--because they shall see God.

`Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

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

for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

become not, then, partakers with them, — read the full passage →

if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not--but I chose out of the world--because of this the world hateth you.

he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.'

`Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;

having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after, — 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 →

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil, — read the full passage →

and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

and when He may come--the Spirit of truth--He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you;

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

`Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith; — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you. — read the full passage →

for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived; — read the full passage →

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

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

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, — read the full passage →

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world; — read the full passage →

we by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations, — read the full passage →

but not even Titus, who <FI>is<Fi> with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised-- — read the full passage →

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

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

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly; — read the full passage →

And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, — read the full passage →

And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;

and pray ye that your flight may not be in winter, nor on a sabbath;

And coming to the house salute it, — read the full passage →

`Happy the meek--because they shall inherit the land. — read the full passage →

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; — read the full passage →

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear — read the full passage →

for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names <FI>are<Fi> in the book of life.