Tough Decisions

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. — read the full passage →

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,—

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

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

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

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; — read the full passage →

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, — read the full passage →

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

not of works, that no one would boast.

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

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

For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary. — read the full passage →

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

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

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 →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

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

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. — read the full passage →

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; — read the full passage →

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

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.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body.” — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

He answered them, “He who made me well, the same said to me, ‘Take up your mat, and walk.’” — read the full passage →