The Old Path

Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where <FI>is<Fi> this--the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'

Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where <FI>is<Fi> thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Therefore I give a portion to him among the many, And with the mighty he apportioneth spoil, Because that he exposed to death his soul, And with transgressors he was numbered, And he the sin of many hath borne, And for transgressors he intercedeth.

I--I have said, `Gods ye <FI>are<Fi> , And sons of the Most High--all of you,

Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death--that is, the devil--

For it was becoming to Him, because of whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and through whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,

Because of this also, we--we do give thanks to God continually, that, having received the word of hearing from us of God, ye accepted, not the word of man, but as it is truly, the word of God, who also doth work in you who believe;

for the law doth work wrath; for where law is not, neither <FI>is<Fi> transgression.

And it appointeth with the wicked his grave, And with the rich <FI>are<Fi> his high places, Because he hath done no violence, Nor <FI>is<Fi> deceit in his mouth.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

And Thomas answered and said to him, `My Lord and my God;'

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;

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> , ye shall die in your sins.'

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 where there are two or three gathered together--to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'

for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

And they build the high places of Baal, that <FI>are<Fi> in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come up on my heart to do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because--at my right hand I am not moved. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, `Why <FI>is<Fi> this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really--I bear--and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath a son.'

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'