Trial

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you, — read the full passage →

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — 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> .

Here is endurance of the saints: here <FI>are<Fi> those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; — read the full passage →

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; — read the full passage →

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

Jesus then having lifted up <FI>his<Fi> eyes and having seen that a great multitude doth come to him, saith unto Philip, `Whence shall we buy loaves, that these may eat?' -- — read the full passage →

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

Good <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to all, And His mercies <FI>are<Fi> over all His works.

`Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

who being reviled--was not reviling again, suffering--was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

For it was becoming to Him, because of whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and through whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect,

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

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

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch. — read the full passage →

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

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, — read the full passage →

and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; — read the full passage →

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 as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

Doth not wisdom call? And understanding give forth her voice?

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

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,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

always rejoice ye; — read the full passage →

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

so that he who is thinking to stand--let him observe, lest he fall. — 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;

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

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

For the Lord Jehovah doth nothing, Except He hath revealed His counsel unto His servants the prophets.

A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: `Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.'

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them. — read the full passage →

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

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.'

Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been--as the righteous so the wicked--far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

`For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,

And he saith to me, `Write: Happy <FI>are<Fi> they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, `These <FI>are<Fi> the true words of God;'

`As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son;

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

for we have known Him who is saying, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord;' and again, `The Lord shall judge His people;' --

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the 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,

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy <FI>is<Fi> the workman of his reward.'

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead--

The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,

but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses, — read the full passage →

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

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,

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

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 →

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God--

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

`It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

And on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene doth come early (there being yet darkness) to the tomb, and she seeth the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,

Jesus answered, `Thou wouldest have no authority against me, if it were not having been given thee from above; because of this, he who is delivering me up to thee hath greater sin.'

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;

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

`And in that house remain, eating and drinking the things they have, for worthy <FI>is<Fi> the workman of his hire; go not from house to house,

And the Sadducees come unto him, who say there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,

And as he is going forth into the way, one having run and having kneeled to him, was questioning him, `Good teacher, what may I do, that life age-during I may inherit?'

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