Trial

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.

Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?” — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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,

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

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.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived, and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

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.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall. — read the full passage →

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.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

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

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain.” And, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses, — read the full passage →

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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 →

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

“Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

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

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

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