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Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian, — read the full passage →

and it came to pass, that he remained many days in Joppa, with a certain one, Simon a tanner.

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.'

I confess Thee, because that <FI>with<Fi> wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful <FI>are<Fi> Thy works, And my soul is knowing <FI>it<Fi> well. — read the full passage →

all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.

If the testimony of men we receive, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that He hath testified concerning His Son. — read the full passage →

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome; — read the full passage →

in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him. — read the full passage →

whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God; — read the full passage →

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us; — read the full passage →

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

we--of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error. — 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; — read the full passage →

and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts, — read the full passage →

we--we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

he who is doing the sin, of the devil he is, because from the beginning the devil doth sin; for this was the Son of God manifested, that he may break up the works of the devil;

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him; — read the full passage →

and this is the promise that He did promise us--the life the age-during. — read the full passage →

Little youths, it is the last hour; and even as ye heard that the antichrist doth come, even now antichrists have become many--whence we know that it is the last hour; — read the full passage →

I write to you, fathers, because ye have known him who <FI>is<Fi> from the beginning; I write to you, young men, because ye have overcome the evil. I write to you, little youths, because ye have known the Father: — read the full passage →

Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning--the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

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 →

if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth;

and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.

and he said to them, `Come ye yourselves apart to a desert place, and rest a little,' for those coming and those going were many, and not even to eat had they opportunity,

this one doth lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to thee what it behoveth thee to do.'

and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter, — read the full passage →

and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

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

And the fifth messenger did pour out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain,

and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

And the fourth messenger did sound, and smitten was the third of the sun, and the third of the moon, and the third of the stars, that darkened may be the third of them, and that the day may not shine--the third of it, and the night in like manner.

And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, — read the full passage →

`But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;

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 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,

that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,

These are in your love-feasts craggy rocks; feasting together with you, without fear shepherding themselves; clouds without water, by winds carried about; trees autumnal, without fruit, twice dead, rooted up;

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

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,

to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also--we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true.

who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,

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

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us--

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life--

as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?

and saying, `Where is the promise of his presence? for since the fathers did fall asleep, all things so remain from the beginning of the creation;'

for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged <FI>it<Fi> , to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, — read the full passage →

Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, — read the full passage →

and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

also to which an antitype doth now save us--baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

that the proof of your faith--much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved--may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls; — read the full passage →

a two-souled man <FI>is<Fi> unstable in all his ways. — 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 the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep--in the blood of an age-during covenant--our Lord Jesus,

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.

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear--

and unto the Son: `Thy throne, O God, <FI>is<Fi> to the age of the age; a sceptre of righteousness <FI>is<Fi> the sceptre of thy reign; — read the full passage →

Markus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lukas, my fellow-workmen!

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

to Titus--true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety,

The Lord Jesus Christ <FI>is<Fi> with thy spirit; the grace <FI>is<Fi> with you! Amen.

in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)

the cloak that I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring thou and the books--especially the parchments.

And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance, — read the full passage →

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith; — read the full passage →

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

taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus,

in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle--truth I say in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

let not any one deceive you in any manner, because--if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed--the son of the destruction,