Wayward Children

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day; — read the full passage →

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

And 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, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously; — read the full passage →

if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?

and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God, — read the full passage →

and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance, — read the full passage →

and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition, — read the full passage →

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets, — read the full passage →

In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, — read the full passage →

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

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

And the messenger answering said to the women, `Fear not ye, for I have known that Jesus, who hath been crucified, ye seek;

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

but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--Christ's--

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all, — read the full passage →

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

and after they are silent, James answered, saying, `Men, brethren, hearken to me; — read the full passage →