Submission To The Lord

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

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

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

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;

and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him <FI>is<Fi> the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

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

neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

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

for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.

as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which <FI>is<Fi> Nazareth, — read the full passage →

for where there are two or three gathered together--to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'

And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth <FI>is<Fi> His glory.'

`And, now, know and consider what thou dost; for evil hath been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he <FI>is<Fi> too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.' — read the full passage →

And he saith to me, `Write: Happy <FI>are<Fi> they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, `These <FI>are<Fi> the true words of God;'

And to Him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set <FI>you<Fi> in the presence of His glory unblemished, in gladness,

for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying,

there shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

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;

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, — read the full passage →

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands, — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, — read the full passage →

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

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

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love,

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also <FI>are<Fi> the wives to their own husbands in everything.

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to <FI>them<Fi> , and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,

And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus, — read the full passage →

`Wonder not at this, because there doth come an hour in which all those in the tombs shall hear his voice, — 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 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--

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and a house of company.

And David heareth in the wilderness that Nabal is shearing his flock, — read the full passage →

and Rahab the harlot, and the house of her father, and all whom she hath, hath Joshua kept alive; and she dwelleth in the midst of Israel unto this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

and she saith to Abraham, `Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid hath no possession with my son--with Isaac.' — read the full passage →

And Sarai saith unto Abram, `My violence <FI>is<Fi> for thee; I--I have given mine handmaid into thy bosom, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am lightly esteemed in her eyes; Jehovah doth judge between me and thee.' — read the full passage →

And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'

and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness, — read the full passage →

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, — read the full passage →

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--Christ's--

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace--for seasonable help.

Servants--to their own masters <FI>are<Fi> to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying, — read the full passage →

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

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

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

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of; — read the full passage →

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners--first of whom I am;

And we--we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens.

The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

And you--being dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh--He made alive together with him, having forgiven you all the trespasses,

in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

and himself is before all, and the all things in him have consisted.

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

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

For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ--

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

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

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ <FI>is<Fi> head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

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

and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly, — read the full passage →