Surrendering

Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me, — read the full passage →

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

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 →

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out, — read the full passage →

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

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

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

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;

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

`Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me;

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

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

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 →

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 →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

`He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

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.

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such; — read the full passage →

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

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

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

this knowing, that our old man was crucified with <FI>him<Fi> , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me; — 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.

And having gone forward a little, he fell upon the earth, and was praying, that, if it be possible the hour may pass from him, — read the full passage →

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

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

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

saying, `Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me--;but, not my will, but Thine be done.' --

be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

`So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

`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.

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

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

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose; — read the full passage →

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

and having cried with a loud voice, Jesus said, `Father, to Thy hands I commit my spirit;' and these things having said, he breathed forth the spirit.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

for to me to live <FI>is<Fi> Christ, and to die gain.

neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it;

Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

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 having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, `Whoever doth will to come after me--let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me; — read the full passage →

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

and Jesus saith to him, `The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'

`But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. — read the full passage →

and every spirit that doth not confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is not; and this is that of the antichrist, which ye heard that it doth come, and now in the world it is already.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

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 →

and there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things <FI>are<Fi> naked and open to His eyes--with whom is our reckoning.