Turning Back

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. — read the full passage →

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice, — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — read the full passage →

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. — read the full passage →

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. — read the full passage →

if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

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.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. — 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.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — 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.

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

When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him, — read the full passage →

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

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,

If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can’t deny himself.”

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

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

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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

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

But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. — read the full passage →

Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield. — read the full passage →

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one; — read the full passage →

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

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

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman.”

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

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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 →

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 →

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 →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. — 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. — read the full passage →

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

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

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, until the Son of Man has come.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.