Worldly Rags

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

They said to you that “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

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

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;

They didn’t repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.

By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.

for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?”

They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

And behold, a pale horse, and he who sat on it, his name was Death. Hades followed with him. Authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill with the sword, with famine, with death, and by the wild animals of the earth was given to him.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Head of God’s creation, says these things: — read the full passage →

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him, neither knows him.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Even so you also, when you see these things happening, know that the Kingdom of God is near.

It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

Likewise, even as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

“As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have fought against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.

It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”

In the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people; but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.

You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army;

After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.

Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him, — read the full passage →

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children.

Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good.

They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

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. — read the full passage →

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment; — read the full passage →

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue; — read the full passage →

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?