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Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise, — read the full passage →

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, — read the full passage →

Lo, that which I have seen: <FI>It is<Fi> good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to him, for it <FI> is<Fi> his portion. — read the full passage →

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy; — read the full passage →

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

To number our days aright let <FI>us<Fi> know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men, — read the full passage →

Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

Whoso <FI>is<Fi> loving mirth <FI>is<Fi> a poor man, Whoso is loving wine and oil maketh no wealth.

`Thou dost not sow thy vineyard <FI>with<Fi> divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated.

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil, — read the full passage →

Thou, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.

for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ, — read the full passage →

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

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

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

and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

`And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

I, Jehovah, hath spoken, It hath come, and I have done <FI>it<Fi> , I do not free, nor do I spare, nor do I repent, According to thy ways, and according to thine acts, they have judged thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

And working together also we call upon <FI>you<Fi> that ye receive not in vain the grace of God-- — read the full passage →

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful for me. — read the full passage →

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' — read the full passage →

and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible; — read the full passage →

`The lamp of the body is the eye, when then thine eye may be simple, thy whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, thy body also is darkened; — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest. — read the full passage →

But to Thee, O Jehovah, my Lord, <FI>are<Fi> mine eyes, In Thee I have trusted, Make not bare my soul. — read the full passage →

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it <FI>is<Fi> vanity. — read the full passage →

for ye have conspired all of you against me, and there is none uncovering mine ear about my son's covenanting with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you grieving for me, and uncovering mine ear, that my son hath raised up my servant against me, to lie in wait as <FI>at<Fi> this day.' — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from an evil man, From one of violence Thou keepest me. — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

In like manner, nevertheless, those dreaming also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away, and dignities they speak evil of,

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

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

I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign-- — read the full passage →

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus--I going on to Macedonia--that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing, — read the full passage →

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

And you--once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile, — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint, — 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; — read the full passage →

There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →

and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning <FI>them<Fi> before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found <FI>it<Fi> five myriads of silverlings;

for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin, — read the full passage →

how are ye able--ye--to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that <FI>is<Fi> from God alone ye seek not?

And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.' — read the full passage →

And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire-- — read the full passage →

And he said--`That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; — read the full passage →

there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

And again he entered into Capernaum, after <FI>some<Fi> days, and it was heard that he is in the house, — read the full passage →

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

`Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil, — read the full passage →

Now gather thyself together, O daughter of troops, A siege he hath laid against us, With a rod they smite on the cheek the judge of Israel. — read the full passage →

According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: — read the full passage →

Dost thou really say, `I <FI>am<Fi> God,' Before him who is slaying thee? And thou <FI>art<Fi> man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee. — read the full passage →

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst.

And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do. — read the full passage →

Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble, — read the full passage →

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment. — read the full passage →

In the transgression of the evil <FI>is<Fi> a snare, And the righteous doth sing and rejoice. — read the full passage →

O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil. — read the full passage →

The desire of the slothful slayeth him, For his hands have refused to work. — read the full passage →

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth. — read the full passage →

For <FI>an object of<Fi> desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth. — read the full passage →

Chastisement <FI>is<Fi> grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth. — read the full passage →

Whoso is tilling the ground is satisfied <FI>with<Fi> bread, And whoso is pursuing vanities is lacking heart, — read the full passage →

My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, — read the full passage →

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

I--I have said, `Gods ye <FI>are<Fi> , And sons of the Most High--all of you, — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill? — read the full passage →

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what--do I attend to a virgin? — read the full passage →

By day they meet darkness, And as night--they grope at noon. — read the full passage →

`Because that thou hast not served Jehovah thy God with joy, and with gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things-- — read the full passage →

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully; — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah, who doth sojourn in Thy tent? Who doth dwell in Thy holy hill? — read the full passage →