Wise

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

Who <FI>is<Fi> wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom, — read the full passage →

`Lo, I do send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as the serpents, and simple as the doves.

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;

that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ, — read the full passage →

for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'

if, then, in the unrighteous mammon ye became not faithful--the true who will entrust to you?

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things? — read the full passage →

`Ye may not give that which is <FI>holy<Fi> to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned--may rend you.

professing to be wise, they were made fools,

`For who of you, willing to build a tower, doth not first, having sat down, count the expence, whether he have the things for completing?

and having come to the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and having fallen down they bowed to him, and having opened their treasures, they presented to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh,

for see your calling, brethren, that not many <FI>are<Fi> wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

`If ye love me, my commands keep, — read the full passage →

for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness. — read the full passage →

already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you; — read the full passage →

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil; — read the full passage →

`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock; — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

Ye--of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who <FI>is<Fi> in you, than he who is in the world. — read the full passage →

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; — read the full passage →

and fulfilled was the Writing that is saying, `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;' and, `Friend of God' he was called.

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire--in nothing lacking; — read the full passage →

and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,' — read the full passage →

and a high priest over the house of God, — read the full passage →

continually pray ye; — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

for through faith we walk, not through sight--

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make; — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.' — read the full passage →

and when they continued asking him, having bent himself back, he said unto them, `The sinless of you--let him first cast the stone at her;' — read the full passage →

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry. — read the full passage →

And Jesus answering said to her, `Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and disquieted about many things, — read the full passage →

And Jesus said to him, `If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and lo, opened to him were the heavens, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him, — read the full passage →

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter; — read the full passage →

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us, — read the full passage →