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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren, within any of thy gates in thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother; — read the full passage →

And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

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

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; — read the full passage →

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat. — read the full passage →

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, If any will not work, neither let him eat.

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; — read the full passage →

And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. — read the full passage →

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; — read the full passage →

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lipstendethonly to penury.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise: — read the full passage →

But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich. — read the full passage →

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Better is a little that the righteous hath Than the abundance of many wicked.

For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods. — read the full passage →

The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him thereto.

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

For for this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God’s service, attending continually upon this very thing. — read the full passage →

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

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

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

And he said also unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he was wasting his goods. — read the full passage →

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, — read the full passage →

It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons is void of understanding.

And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved. — read the full passage →

for he is a minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him that doeth evil.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God.

and that he may send the Christ who hath been appointed for you, even Jesus:

The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.

and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger. — read the full passage →

A false balance is an abomination to Jehovah; But a just weight is his delight. — read the full passage →

My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped; — read the full passage →

And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. — read the full passage →

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →

The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: — read the full passage →

Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. — read the full passage →

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. — read the full passage →

For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain: — read the full passage →

Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia: — read the full passage →

for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

And as they spake unto the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, — read the full passage →

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth.

for as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day. — read the full passage →

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

but one thing is needful: for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

Verily I say unto you, What things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. — read the full passage →

And thou, Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt go down unto Hades: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in thee, it would have remained until this day. — read the full passage →

And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. — read the full passage →

And he saith unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa, saying, — read the full passage →

The word of Jehovah which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. — read the full passage →

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand; — read the full passage →

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her. — read the full passage →

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: — read the full passage →

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; the oracle. The man saith unto Ithiel, unto Ithiel and Ucal: — read the full passage →

I will give thee thanks with my whole heart: Before the gods will I sing praises unto thee. — read the full passage →

Whom have I in heavenbut thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. — read the full passage →

O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again. — read the full passage →