The Ant

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise; — read the full passage →

“There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise: — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother; — read the full passage →

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

Honor widows who are widows indeed. — read the full passage →

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread. — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letteror one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, the oracle: the man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel and Ucal:

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young. — read the full passage →

At the end of every three years you shall bring all the tithe of your increase in the same year, and shall store it within your gates. — read the full passage →

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;