The Freedom Of God

Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood men of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers.

And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

in whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will;

No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be: — read the full passage →

For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; — read the full passage →

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,

All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

if any man speaketh, speaking as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation,—in whom, having also believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, — read the full passage →

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: — read the full passage →

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers. — read the full passage →

him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:

And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.

Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; — read the full passage →

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

to the saints and faithful brethren in Christthat areat Colossæ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

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

to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead), — read the full passage →

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: — read the full passage →

Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God; — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble; — read the full passage →

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.

but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:

And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. — read the full passage →

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will? — read the full passage →

Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, — read the full passage →

And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac— — read the full passage →

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: — read the full passage →

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? — read the full passage →

And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction; — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel:

But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel: — read the full passage →

for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together, — read the full passage →

But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.

even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.

And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

Marvel not at this: for the hour cometh, in which all that are in the tombs shall hear his voice, — read the full passage →

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.