The Way

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

About that time there arose no small stir concerning the Way.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly; — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Where I go, you know, and you know the way.”

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.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that I am?”

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.