Worship Appropriately

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’ — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — read the full passage →

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

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 →

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — 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, — read the full passage →

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word which came to Zephaniah, the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah. — read the full passage →

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle. — read the full passage →

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

I heard a loud voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth!” — read the full passage →

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, — read the full passage →

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Then after a period of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me. — read the full passage →

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Peter, and stayed with him fifteen days. — read the full passage →

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord? — read the full passage →

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.

But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. — read the full passage →

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul, — read the full passage →

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay.” So she persuaded us. — read the full passage →

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.” — read the full passage →

The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter. — read the full passage →

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’” — read the full passage →

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. — read the full passage →

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. — read the full passage →

When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. — read the full passage →

He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus. — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.” — read the full passage →

As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. — read the full passage →

They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him. — read the full passage →

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.

Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. — read the full passage →

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. — read the full passage →

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” — read the full passage →

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country. — read the full passage →

He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. — read the full passage →

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him. — read the full passage →

Again he began to teach by the seaside. A great multitude was gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat in the sea, and sat down. All the multitude were on the land by the sea. — read the full passage →

He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered. — read the full passage →

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

When he came down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. — read the full passage →

An oracle: Yahweh’s word to Israel by Malachi. — read the full passage →

In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. — read the full passage →

The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. — read the full passage →

The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. — read the full passage →

In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying, — read the full passage →

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, — read the full passage →

The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. — read the full passage →

An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. — read the full passage →

An oracle about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. — read the full passage →

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel. — read the full passage →

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it. — read the full passage →

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →