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`And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

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 →

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,

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

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

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

And they call with a loud voice, and cut themselves, according to their ordinance, with swords and with spears, till a flowing of blood <FI>is<Fi> on them;

`Sons ye <FI>are<Fi> to Jehovah your God; ye do not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes for the dead;

and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

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;

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.

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

proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you <FI>is<Fi> sure; — read the full passage →

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

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

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

let all your things be done in love.

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;

Lo, on the palms of the hand I have graven thee, Thy walls <FI>are<Fi> before Me continually.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And from all my fears did deliver me.

By David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

Also--when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> with me, Thy rod and Thy staff--they comfort me.

and now, he hath died, why <FI>is<Fi> this--I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'

In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, — read the full passage →

and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray. — read the full passage →

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you, — read the full passage →

to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God, — read the full passage →

And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

and they shall see His face, and His name <FI>is<Fi> upon their foreheads,

`This <FI>is<Fi> the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,'

For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant, — read the full passage →

look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished; — read the full passage →

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart, — read the full passage →

And this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood the reign of God is not able to inherit, nor doth the corruption inherit the incorruption;

So also <FI>is<Fi> the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; — read the full passage →

Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ; — read the full passage →

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

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.

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;

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;

because, having known God they did not glorify <FI>Him<Fi> as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened, — read the full passage →

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood; — read the full passage →

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age; — read the full passage →

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

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat). — read the full passage →

From their fruits ye shall know them; do <FI>men<Fi> gather from thorns grapes? or from thistles figs? — read the full passage →

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →

And I have taken you out of the nations, And have gathered you out of all the lands, And I have brought you in unto your land, — read the full passage →

Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

And ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, For in My statutes ye have not walked, And My Judgments ye have not done, And according to the judgments of the nations Who are round about you--ye have done!' — read the full passage →

And He saith unto me, `Hast thou seen, son of man? again thou dost turn, thou dost see greater abominations than these.' — read the full passage →

And He saith unto me, `Son of man, all My words, that I speak unto thee, receive with thy heart, and with thine ears hear; — read the full passage →

Ye do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep ye sore for the traveller, For he doth not return again, Nor hath he seen the land of his birth.

And Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a God of truth, He <FI>is<Fi> a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation. — read the full passage →

He hath gone up to Bajith and Dibon, The high places--to weep, On Nebo and on Medeba Moab howleth, On all its heads <FI>is<Fi> baldness, every beard cut off.

The heart of the wise <FI>is<Fi> at his right hand, And the heart of a fool at his left. — read the full passage →

The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished. — read the full passage →

The prudent hath seen the evil, he is hidden, The simple have passed on, they are punished.

The gift of a man maketh room for him, And before the great it leadeth him. — read the full passage →

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.

The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished. — read the full passage →

The way of a fool <FI>is<Fi> right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel <FI>is<Fi> wise.

The way of a fool <FI>is<Fi> right in his own eyes, And whoso is hearkening to counsel <FI>is<Fi> wise. — read the full passage →

Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance <FI>is<Fi> in a multitude of counsellors. — read the full passage →

In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee. — read the full passage →

Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

They looked expectingly unto Him, And they became bright, And their faces are not ashamed.

and prospered over thee hath the Spirit of Jehovah, and thou hast prophesied with them, and hast been turned to another man;

and a charmer, and one asking at a familiar spirit, and a wizard, and one seeking unto the dead.

`Ye do not do so to Jehovah your God;

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

they do not make baldness on their head, and the corner of their beard they do not shave, and in their flesh they do not make a cutting;

and ye walk not in the statutes of the nation which I am sending away from before you, for all these they have done, and I am wearied with them;

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

and they tabernacle from Havilah unto Shur, which <FI>is<Fi> before Egypt, in <FI>thy<Fi> going towards Asshur; in the presence of all his brethren hath he fallen.

And their head they do not shave, and the lock they do not send forth; they certainly poll their heads.