Yoke

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest, — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

for my yoke <FI>is<Fi> easy, and my burden is light.'

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls, — read the full passage →

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said--`I will dwell in them, and will walk among <FI>them<Fi> , and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,

wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I--I will receive you,

become not, then, partakers with them,

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;

And it came to pass, when Jesus ended directing his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. — read the full passage →

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers--

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. — read the full passage →

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

`These things I have spoken to you, that ye may not be stumbled, — read the full passage →

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 I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names <FI>are<Fi> in the book of life.

`For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

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

and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?

if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each--so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of; — read the full passage →

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

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,' --

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; — read the full passage →

said to him, `Art thou He who is coming, or for another do we look?'

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

and the truth shall make you free.'

and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, woe! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.

And working together also we call upon <FI>you<Fi> that ye receive not in vain the grace of God-- — 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;

And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing--let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting--let him come; and he who is willing--let him take the water of life freely.

And supper being come, the devil already having put <FI>it<Fi> into the heart of Judas of Simon, Iscariot, that he may deliver him up,

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John, — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

and I will be to you for a Father, and ye--ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

And to the rest I speak--not the Lord--if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away; — read the full passage →

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.