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For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. — read the full passage →

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

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,

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 →

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory. — read the full passage →

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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.

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

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.

My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn’t go out by night.

He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird!

Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

The same was in the beginning with God.

Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.