Theocracy

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

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.

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies. — read the full passage →

Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

When you have come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and possess it, and dwell in it, and say, “I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me”; — read the full passage →

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant. — read the full passage →

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Then he said to them, “But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet. Whoever has none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

“When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us;’ when Yahweh your God was your king.

When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel. — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. — read the full passage →

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near. — read the full passage →

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.

kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.

Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn’t open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.

David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land? — read the full passage →

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around, — read the full passage →

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.” Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.

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 →

For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.

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

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. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

“Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.

but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, ‘No! Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.”

that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which Yahweh your God makes with you this day;

At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.

Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”