Weight

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

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

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.

that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters. — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok. — read the full passage →

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

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

This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.