Wayward Children

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

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

When a man’s ways please Jehovah, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. 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 exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves; — 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 he wasted his substance with riotous living. — read the full passage →

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

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband 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 →

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

But let him ask in faith, nothing doubting: for he that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.

Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; 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 assurance ofthingshoped for, a conviction of things not seen. — read the full passage →

making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

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

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

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

rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;

let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from 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 Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release 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 one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

So then, my beloved, even 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 scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

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

And what shall I more say? for the time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah; of David and Samuel and the prophets: — read the full passage →

God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, — read the full passage →

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tittle of the law to fall.

And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye; for I know that ye seek Jesus, who hath been crucified.

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

Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?

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 subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

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

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a bondservant though he is lord of all; — read the full passage →

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

And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, 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: and his mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she 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 ground, and daughters were born unto them, — read the full passage →