Wayward Children

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

Therefore we don’t faint, 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 Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves. — read the full passage →

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living. — read the full passage →

If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. 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 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, — read the full passage →

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

“Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds. — read the full passage →

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

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

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 Yahweh, saying, — read the full passage →

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

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

Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

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

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

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

I will signal for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they will 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 good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets; — read the full passage →

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

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

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

Twenty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

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?’”

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 faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different 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 some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me. — read the full passage →

Forty-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.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →