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I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives. — read the full passage →

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

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

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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.

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. — read the full passage →

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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.

But the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

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

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them. — read the full passage →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house, — read the full passage →

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” — read the full passage →

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Many more believed because of his word.

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.

I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!”

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son; — read the full passage →

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

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 →

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world works death.

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. — read the full passage →

What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win. — read the full passage →

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

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.

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” — read the full passage →

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

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.

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.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God, — read the full passage →

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; — read the full passage →

They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! — read the full passage →

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

“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,

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. — read the full passage →

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: — read the full passage →