Tough Decisions

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.

Of man <FI>are<Fi> arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue. — read the full passage →

The pattern hold thou of sound words, which from me thou didst hear, in faith and love that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him: — read the full passage →

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

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

Jehovah my God, I have cried to Thee, And Thou dost heal me.

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,

if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age;

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

and Elijah cometh nigh unto all the people, and saith, `Till when are ye leaping on the two branches? --if Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> God, go after Him; and if Baal, go after him;' and the people have not answered him a word.

And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> , there <FI>is<Fi> liberty;

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;

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens;

Balances of deceit <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight <FI>is<Fi> His delight. — read the full passage →

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

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

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

For His messengers He chargeth for thee, To keep thee in all thy ways, — read the full passage →

And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction,

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth 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;

`And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

Every saying of God <FI>is<Fi> tried, A shield He <FI>is<Fi> to those trusting in Him.

Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou <FI>art<Fi> God.

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

for this <FI>is<Fi> right and acceptable before God our Saviour, — read the full passage →

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;

Lo, the hand of Jehovah Hath not been shortened from saving, Nor heavy his ear from hearing.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you--from hearing.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, — read the full passage →

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment, — read the full passage →

whence also he is able to save to the very end, those coming through him unto God--ever living to make intercession for them.

not of works, that no one may boast;

for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

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

All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

for by one offering he hath perfected to the end those sanctified;

It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary, — read the full passage →

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God, — read the full passage →

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you;

`And forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors.

Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

(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,

waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

`But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you; — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,

I--I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, And besides Me there is no saviour.

The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him. — read the full passage →

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

And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, — read the full passage →

and he saith to them, `Why do ye things like these? for I am hearing of your evil words from all the people--these!

in the which will we are having been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once,

for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, <FI>is<Fi> with you all! Amen.

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

who also made us sufficient <FI>to be<Fi> ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

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

for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children 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.

all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

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

And as they are eating, Jesus having taken bread, having blessed, brake, and gave to them, and said, `Take, eat; this is my body.' — read the full passage →

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory; — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> the wise in their own eyes, And--before their own faces--intelligent!

And God saith unto Moses, `I AM THAT WHICH I AM;' He saith also, `Thus dost thou say to the sons of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.'

Ministrants--in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth--the good news of your salvation--in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

He answered them, `He who made me whole--that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;' — read the full passage →

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.