Worldly Rags

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,

and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,

being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with <FI>him<Fi> through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

lo, I tell you a secret; we indeed shall not all sleep, and we all shall be changed;

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

And we are as unclean--all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf--all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

`I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed,

yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

by these three were the third of men killed, from the fire, and from the smoke, and from the brimstone, that is proceeding out of their mouth,

because come did the great day of His anger, and who is able to stand?

and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, `Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of Him who is sitting upon the throne, and from the anger of the Lamb,'

and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him--his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.

`And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness--the faithful and true--the chief of the creation of God; — read the full passage →

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

this first knowing, that there shall come in the latter end of the days scoffers, according to their own desires going on,

for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;

and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing,

for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift, — read the full passage →

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now <FI>is<Fi> a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we--we shall be changed:

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;

for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land.

and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

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 he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;

`According to these things it shall be, in the day the Son of Man is revealed;

in like manner also, as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

`And why do ye call me, Lord, Lord, and do not what I say?

and if the Lord did not shorten the days, no flesh had been saved; but because of the chosen, whom He did choose to Himself, He did shorten the days.

and to all the nations it behoveth first that the good news be proclaimed.

and saying--`Fulfilled hath been the time, and the reign of God hath come nigh, reform ye, and believe in the good news.'

teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them--to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

and they did not know till the flood came and took all away; so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man.

and as the days of Noah--so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens is perfect.

And this is the plague with which Jehovah Doth plague all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem, He hath consumed away its flesh, And it is standing on its feet, And its eyes are consumed in their holes, And its tongue is consumed in their mouth.

And it hath come to pass, in that day, Go forth do living waters from Jerusalem, Half of them unto the eastern sea, And half of them unto the western sea, In summer and in winter it is.

Therefore he doth give them out till the time She who bringeth forth hath brought forth, And the remnant of his brethren return to the sons of Israel.

And it hath come to pass, Every one who calleth in the name of Jehovah is delivered, For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there is an escape, As Jehovah hath said, And among the remnants whom Jehovah is calling!

Purify themselves, yea, make themselves white, yea, refined are many: and the wicked have done wickedly, and none of the wicked understand, and those acting wisely do understand;

And thou, O Daniel, hide the things, and seal the book till the time of the end, many do go to and fro, and knowledge is multiplied.'

`And in the days of these kings raise up doth the God of the heavens a kingdom that is not destroyed--to the age, and its kingdom to another people is not left: it beateth small and endeth all these kingdoms, and it standeth to the age.

And thou hast come up against My people Israel, As a cloud to cover the land, In the latter end of the days it is, And I have brought thee in against My land, In order that the nations may know Me, In My being sanctified in thee before their eyes, O Gog.

And thou hast come in out of thy place, From the sides of the north, Thou and many peoples with thee, Riding on horses--all of them, A great assembly, and a numerous force.

After many days thou art appointed, In the latter end of the years thou comest in unto a land brought back from sword, <FI>A people<Fi> gathered out of many peoples, Upon mountains of Israel, That have been for a perpetual waste, And it from the peoples hath been brought out, And dwelt safely have all of them.

`Son of man, set thy face unto Gog, of the land of Magog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy concerning him, — read the full passage →

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your all becoming dross, Therefore, lo, I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem,

Who hath heard anything like this? Who hath seen anything like these? Is earth caused to bring forth in one day? Born is a nation at once? For she hath been pained, Zion also hath borne her sons.

Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that <FI>is<Fi> in Jerusalem.

To the Overseer. --By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

and they call unto Lot and say to him, `Where <FI>are<Fi> the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bring them out unto us, and we know them.'

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.

and some in fear save ye, out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted.

for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord--Jesus Christ--denying,

We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

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.

in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,

and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.

every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

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, — read the full passage →

The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep, — read the full passage →

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness, — read the full passage →

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?