Wayward Children

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

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. — read the full passage →

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. — read the full passage →

If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: — read the full passage →

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, — read the full passage →

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. — read the full passage →

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, — read the full passage →

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, — 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 →

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them: and they shall increase as they have increased. — read the full passage →

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. — read the full passage →

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? — read the full passage →

And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: — read the full passage →

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, — read the full passage →

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; — read the full passage →

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.

And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; — read the full passage →

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me: — read the full passage →

Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, — read the full passage →