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Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

There is a way right before a man, And its latter end--ways of death.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might; — read the full passage →

`Verily, verily, I say to you--He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the life.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

by faith Moses, having become great, did refuse to be called a son of the daughter of Pharaoh, — read the full passage →

no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.

Lo, that which I have seen: <FI>It is<Fi> good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it <FI> is<Fi> his portion.

Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?

and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

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

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

Wine <FI>is<Fi> a scorner--strong drink <FI>is<Fi> noisy, And any going astray in it is not wise.

As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

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. — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

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.

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> the mighty to drink wine, And men of strength to mingle strong drink.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those rising early in the morning, Strong drink they pursue! Tarrying in twilight, wine inflameth them!

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life <FI>are<Fi> multiplied to thee.

`Thou dost not murder.

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

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,

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

and the truth shall make you free.'

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

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

For, lo, the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, Is turning aside from Jerusalem, And from Judah, stay and staff, Every stay of bread, and every stay of water. — read the full passage →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

And the third day a marriage happened in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there, — read the full passage →

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

and without <FI>are<Fi> the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

for sufficient to us <FI>is<Fi> the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

one doth believe that he may eat all things--and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light; — read the full passage →

and others mocking said, --`They are full of sweet wine;'

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,