Scripture References For Church Doctrinal Beliefs
I. The Scriptures
Exodus
24:4 And Moses wrote all the
words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under
the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Deuteronomy
4:1-2 (1) Now
therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I
teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land
which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you. (2) Ye shall not add unto the
word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may
keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his
life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this
law and these statutes, to do them.
Joshua
8:34 And afterward he read all the words
of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the
book of the law.
Psalm
19:7-10 (7) The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the
testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. (8) The statutes of the
LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure,
enlightening the eyes. (9) The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the
judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. (10) More to be desired
are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the
honeycomb.
119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
119:89 For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
119:140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
Isaiah
34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD,
and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it
hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
40:8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God
shall stand for ever.
Jeremiah
15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me
the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of
hosts.
36:1-32 (1) And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
(2) Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have
spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations,
from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day. (3)
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do
unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive
their iniquity and their sin. (4) Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah:
and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he
had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book. (5) And Jeremiah commanded Baruch,
saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the LORD: (6) Therefore go
thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of
the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and
also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their
cities. (7) It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and
will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury
that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. (8) And Baruch the son of
Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in
the book the words of the LORD in the LORD's house. (9) And it came to pass in
the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month,
that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and
to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. (10) Then
read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the
chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the
entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people. (11)
When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book
all the words of the LORD, (12) Then he went down into the king's house, into
the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the
scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and
Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the
princes. (13) Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people. (14) Therefore all the
princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi,
unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the
ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his
hand, and came unto them. (15) And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it
in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears. (16) Now it came to pass, when
they had heard all the words, they were afraid both one and other, and said unto
Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words. (17) And they asked
Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?
(18) Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his
mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. (19) Then said the princes unto
Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye
be. (20) And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll
in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the
king.
(21) So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it
out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the
king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
(22) Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and
there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
(23) And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut
it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until
all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
(24) Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither
the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
(25) Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear
them. (26) But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of
Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to
take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
(27) Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the
king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of
Jeremiah, saying, (28) Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the
former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath
burned. (29) And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou
hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king
of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease
from thence man and beast? (30) Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king
of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body
shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost. (31)
And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I
will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of
Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.
(32) Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son
of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the
book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added
besides unto them many like words.
Matthew
5:17-18 (17) Think not that I am come to
destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (18)
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
22:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the
scriptures, nor the power of God.
Luke
21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
24:44-46 (44) And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto
you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were
written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning
me. (45) Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the
scriptures, (46) And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved
Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
John
5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them
ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
16:13-15 (13) Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,
that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. (14) He shall glorify
me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. (15) All things
that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and
shall shew it unto you.
17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Acts
2:16 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and
were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they
received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily,
whether those things were so.
Romans
15:4 For whatsoever things were written
aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of
the scriptures might have hope.
16:25-26 (25) Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my
gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the
mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, (26) But now is made
manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of
the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
2
Timothy
3:15-17 (15) And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which
are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ
Jesus. (16) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (17)
That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
Hebrews
1:1-2 (1) God, who at sundry times and in
divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, (2) Hath in
these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all
things, by whom also he made the worlds;
4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of
the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart.
1
Peter
1:25 But the word of the
Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached
unto you.
2
Peter
1:19-21 (19) We have also a more
sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light
that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your
hearts: (20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation. (21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will
of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
II. God
A. God the Father
Exodus
3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
6:2-3 (2) And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: (3)
And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God
Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
15:11 Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee,
glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
20:1 And God spake all these words, saying,
Leviticus
22:2 Speak unto Aaron and to
his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of
Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow
unto me: I am the LORD.
Deuteronomy
6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he
thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
1 Chronicles
29:10 Wherefore David blessed
the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God
of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
Psalm
19:1-3 (1) The heavens declare
the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. (2) Day unto day
uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. (3) There is no speech
nor language, where their voice is not heard.
Isaiah
43:3 For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave
Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
43:15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our
potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Jeremiah
10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting
king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to
abide his indignation.
17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and
they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have
forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.
Matthews
6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your
children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to
them that ask him?
23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father,
which is in heaven.
28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Mark
1:9-11 (9) And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth
of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan. (10) And straightway coming up
out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove
descending upon him: (11) And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art
my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
John
4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.
5:26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son
to have life in himself;
14:6-13 (6) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no
man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (7) If ye had known me, ye should have
known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. (8)
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. (9) Jesus
saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known
me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then,
Shew us the Father? (10) Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the
Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the
Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. (11) Believe me that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. (12)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my
Father. (13) And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son.
17:1-8 (1) These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and
said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify
thee: (2) As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give
eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. (3) And this is life eternal,
that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast
sent. (4) I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which
thou gavest me to do. (5) And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self
with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. (6) I have manifested
thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were,
and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. (7) Now they have known
that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. (8) For I have given
unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have
known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst
send me.
Acts
1:7 And he said unto
them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath
put in his own power.
Romans
8:14-15 (14) For as many as
are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (15) For ye have not
received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
1 Corinthians
8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all
things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we
by him.
Galatians
4:6 And because ye are
sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba,
Father.
Ephesians
4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and
in you all.
Colossians
1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
creature:
1 Timothy
1:17 Now unto the King
eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever
and ever. Amen.
Hebrews
11:6 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly:
wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for
them a city.
12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and
we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the
Father of spirits, and live?
1
Peter
1:17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth
according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
1 John
5:7 For there are three
that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these
three are one.
B. God the Son
Genenis
18:1
And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent
door in the heat of the day;
Psalm
2:7
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this
day have I begotten thee.
110:1
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
Isaiah
7:14
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall
conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
53:1-12 (1) Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the
arm of the LORD revealed?
(2) For he shall grow up before him as a tender
plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and
when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
(3) He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces
from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
(4) Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted.
(5) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and
with his stripes we are healed.
(6) All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of
us all.
(7) He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet
he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
(8) He was taken from prison and from
judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the
land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
(9) And he made his grave with the
wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither
was any deceit in his mouth.
(10) Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he
hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he
shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD
shall prosper in his hand.
(11) He shall see of the travail of his soul, and
shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many;
for he shall bear their iniquities. (12)
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the
spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he
was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of
many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Matthews
1:18-23 (18) Now the birth of Jesus
Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before
they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
(19) Then Joseph her husband, being a
just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her
away privily. (20) But
while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the LORD appeared unto
him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee
Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. (21) And she shall
bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his
people from their sins.
(22) Now all this was done, that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
(23) Behold, a virgin shall be with
child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which
being interpreted is, God with us.
3:17
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.
8:29
And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou
Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
11:27
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son,
but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to
whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
14:33
Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth
thou art the Son of God.
16:16 And Simon Peter answered and
said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
16:27
For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and
then he shall reward every man according to his works.
17:5
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice
out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased;
hear ye him.
27:1-66 (1) When the morning was come,
all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put
him to death:
(2) And when they had bound him, they led him
away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
(3) Then Judas, which had betrayed him,
when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the
thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
(4) Saying, I have sinned in that I
have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to
that.
(5) And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went
and hanged himself.
(6) And the chief priests took the silver pieces,
and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the
price of blood. (7)
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury
strangers in.
(8) Wherefore that field was called, The field of
blood, unto this day.
(9) Then was fulfilled that which was spoken
by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the
price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
(10) And gave them for the potter's
field, as the Lord appointed me.
(11) And Jesus stood before the governor: and the
governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto
him, Thou sayest.
(12) And when he was accused of the chief priests
and elders, he answered nothing.
(13) Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not
how many things they witness against thee? (14) And he answered him to never a
word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.
(15) Now at that feast the governor was
wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
(16) And they had then a notable
prisoner, called Barabbas.
(17) Therefore when they were gathered together,
Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus
which is called Christ?
(18) For he knew that for envy they had delivered
him.
(19) When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying,
Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this
day in a dream because of him.
(20) But the chief priests and elders persuaded
the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
(21) The governor answered and said
unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said,
Barabbas.
(22) Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then
with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.
(23) And the governor said, Why, what
evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
(24) When Pilate saw that he could
prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed
his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just
person: see ye to it.
(25) Then answered all the people, and said, His
blood be on us, and on our children.
(26) Then released he Barabbas unto them: and
when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
(27) Then the soldiers of the governor
took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of
soldiers.
(28) And they stripped him, and put on him a
scarlet robe.
(29) And when they had platted a crown of thorns,
they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee
before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
(30) And they spit upon him, and took
the reed, and smote him on the head.
(31) And after that they had mocked him, they
took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to
crucify him. (32)
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they
compelled to bear his cross.
(33) And when they were come unto a place called
Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, (34) They gave him vinegar to drink
mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
(35) And they crucified him, and parted
his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast
lots.
(36) And sitting down they watched him there; (37) And set up over his head his
accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
(38) Then were there two thieves
crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
(39) And they that passed by reviled
him, wagging their heads,
(40) And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple,
and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come
down from the cross.
(41) Likewise also the chief priests mocking him,
with the scribes and elders, said,
(42) He saved others; himself he cannot save. If
he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will
believe him.
(43) He trusted in God; let him deliver him now,
if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
(44) The thieves also, which were
crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. (45) Now from the sixth hour there was
darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. (46) And about the ninth hour Jesus
cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
(47) Some of them that stood there, when they
heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. (48) And straightway one of them ran,
and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave
him to drink.
(49) The rest said, Let be, let us see whether
Elias will come to save him.
(50) Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud
voice, yielded up the ghost.
(51) And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent
in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks
rent;
(52) And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept
arose,
(53) And came out of the graves
after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
(54) Now when the centurion, and they
that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that
were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
(55) And many women were there
beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
(56) Among which was Mary Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children.
(57) When the even was come, there came
a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
(58) He went to Pilate, and begged the
body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
(59) And when Joseph had taken the
body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, (60) And laid it in his own new tomb,
which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of
the sepulchre, and departed.
(61) And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other
Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. (62) Now the next day, that followed
the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto
Pilate,
(63) Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver
said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
(64) Command therefore that the
sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night,
and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the
last error shall be worse than the first. (65) Pilate said unto them, Ye have a
watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. (66) So they went, and made the
sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost:
Mark
1:1
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
3:11
And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried,
saying, Thou art the Son of God.
Luke
1:35
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon
thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that
holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
4:41
And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the
Son of God. And he
rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for
they knew that he was Christ.
22:70
Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye
say that I am.
24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is
written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead
thethird day:
John
1:1-18 (1) In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
(2) The same was in the beginning
with God.
(3) All things were made by him; and without
him was not any thing made that was made. (4) In him was life; and the life was
the light of men.
(5) And the light shineth in darkness; and the
darkness comprehended it not.
(6) There was a man sent from God, whose name
was John.
(7) The same came for a witness, to bear
witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
(8) He was not that Light, but was
sent to bear witness of that Light.
(9) That was the true Light, which lighteth
every man that cometh into the world.
(10) He was in the world, and the world was
made by him, and the world knew him not.
(11) He came unto his own, and his own
received him not.
(12) But as many as received him, to them gave
he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
(13) Which were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
(14) And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father,) full of grace and truth.
(15) John bare witness of him, and cried,
saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before
me: for he was before me.
(16) And of his fulness have all we received,
and grace for grace.
(17) For the law was given by Moses, but grace
and truth came by Jesus Christ.
(18) No man hath seen God at any time, the only
begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus
coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of
the world.
10:30 I and my Father are one.
10:38 But if I do, though ye believe
not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in
me, and I in him.
11:25-27 (25) Jesus said unto her, I am
the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live: (26) And whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (27) She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I
believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the
world.
12:44-50 (44)Jesus cried and said, He
that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.
(45) And he that seeth me seeth him
that sent me.
(46) I am come a light into the world, that
whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
(47) And if any man hear my words, and
believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the
world.
(48) He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my
words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall
judge him in the last day.
(49) For I have not spoken of myself; but the
Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I
should speak.
(50) And I know that his commandment is life
everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I
speak.
14:7-11 (7) If ye had known me, ye
should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen
him.
(8) Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
(9) Jesus saith unto him, Have I been
so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen
me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
(10) Believest thou not that I am in
the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not
of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
(11) Believe me that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
16:15-16 (15) All things that the
Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall
shew it unto you.
(16) A little while, and ye shall not see me: and
again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
16:28 I came forth from the Father,
and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
17:1-5 (1) These words spake Jesus,
and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify
thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: (2) As thou hast given him power over
all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
(3) And this is life eternal, that they
might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
(4) I have glorified thee on the earth:
I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
(5) And now, O Father, glorify thou me
with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
17:21 (21) That they all may be one;
as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that
the world may believe that thou hast sent me. (22) And the glory which thou gavest me
I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
20:1-20 (1)The
first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto
the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
(2) Then she runneth, and cometh to
Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them,
They have taken away the LORD out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they
have laid him.
(3) Peter therefore went forth, and that other
disciple, and came to the sepulchre.
(4) So they ran both together: and the other
disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.
(5) And he stooping down, and looking
in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in.
(6) Then cometh Simon Peter following
him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie,
(7) And the napkin, that was about his
head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by
itself.
(8) Then went in also that other disciple, which
came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed.
(9) For as yet they knew not the
scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. (10) Then the disciples went away again
unto their own home.
(11) But Mary stood without at the sepulchre
weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre,
(12) And seeth two angels in white
sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus
had lain.
(13) And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest
thou? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my LORD, and I know not
where they have laid him.
(14) And when she had thus said, she turned
herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was
Jesus. (15) Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why
weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith
unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him,
and I will take him away.
(16) Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned
herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
(17) Jesus saith unto her, Touch me
not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto
them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.
(18) Mary Magdalene came and told the
disciples that she had seen the LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto
her.
(19) Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the
doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came
Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
(20) And when he had so said, he shewed
unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw
the LORD.
20:28
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
Acts
1:9
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and
a cloud received him out of their sight.
2:22-24 (22) Ye men of Israel, hear
these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and
wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves
also know:
(23) Him, being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have
crucified and slain:
(24) Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the
pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
7:55-56 (55)But he, being full of
the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and
Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
(56) And said, Behold, I see the heavens
opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
9:4 (4) And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice
saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
(5) And he said, Who art thou, Lord?
And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks.
9:20 And straightway he preached
Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
Romans
1:3-4 (3) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord,
which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;
(4) And declared to be the Son of God with
power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:
3:23-26 (23) For all have sinned, and
come short of the glory of God;
(24) Being justified freely by his grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
(25) Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
(26) To declare, I say, at this time
his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which
believeth in Jesus.
5:6-21 (6) For when we were yet
without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
(7) For scarcely for a righteous man
will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to
die.
(8) But God commendeth his love toward us, in
that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(9) Much more then, being now justified
by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
(10) For if, when we were enemies, we
were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by his life.
(11) And not only so, but we also joy in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
(12) Wherefore, as by one man sin
entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all
men, for that all have sinned:
(13) For until the law sin was in the
world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
(14) Nevertheless death reigned from
Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's
transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
(15) But not as the offence, so also is
the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the
grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath
abounded unto many.
(16) And
not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to
condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
(17) For if by one man's offence death
reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
(18) Therefore as by the offence of one
judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one
the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
(19) For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
(20) Moreover the law entered, that the
offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
(21) That as sin hath reigned unto
death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by
Jesus Christ our Lord.
8: 1-3 (1) There is therefore now
no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
(3) For what the law could not do, in
that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
10:4 For Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to every one that believeth.
1 Corinthians
1:30 But of him are ye in Christ
Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption:
2:2 For I determined not to know
any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
8:6 But to us there is but one God,
the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by
whom are all things, and we by him.
15:1-8 (1) Moreover, brethren, I
declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have
received, and wherein ye stand;
(2) By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in
memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
(3) For I delivered unto you first of
all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures;
(4) And that he was buried, and that he rose
again the third day according to the scriptures: (5) And that he was seen of Cephas,
then of the twelve:
(6) After that, he was seen of above five hundred
brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some
are fallen asleep.
(7) After that, he was seen of James; then of all
the apostles.
(8) And last of all he was seen of me also, as of
one born out of due time.
15:24-28 (24) Then cometh the end,
when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he
shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
(25) For he must reign, till he hath
put all enemies under his feet.
(26) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is
death.
(27) For he hath put all things under his feet.
But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is
excepted, which did put all things under him. (28) And when all things shall be
subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put
all things under him, that God may be all in all.
2 Corinthians
5:19-21 (19) To wit, that God was in
Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto
them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
(20) Now then we are ambassadors for
Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be
ye reconciled to God.
(21) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who
knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Galatians
4:4-5 (4) But when the fulness of
the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
(5) To redeem them that were under the
law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Ephesians
1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when
he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly
places,
3:11 According to the eternal purpose
which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
4:7-10 (7) But unto every one of us
is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. (8) Wherefore
he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts
unto men.
(9) (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he
also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
(10) He that descended is the same also
that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Philippians
2:5-11 (5) Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus:
(6) Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God:
(7) But made himself of no reputation, and took
upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
(8) And being found in fashion as a
man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.
(9) Wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: (10) That
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in
earth, and things under the earth; (11) And that every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Colossians
1:13-22 (13) Who hath delivered us
from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear
Son: (14) In whom we have redemption through
his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
(15) Who is the image of the invisible God,
the firstborn of every creature:
(16) For by him were all things created, that are
in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by
him, and for him:
(17) And he is before all things, and by
him all things consist.
(18) And he is the head of the body, the church:
who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might
have the preeminence.
(19) For it pleased the Father that in him should
all fulness dwell;
(20) And, having made peace through the blood of
his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether
they be things in earth, or things in heaven. (21) And you, that were sometime
alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
(22) In the body of his flesh through
death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
2:9 For in him dwelleth all the
fulness of the Godhead bodily.
1 Thessalonians
4:14-18 (14) For if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring
with him.
(15) For this we say unto you by the word of the
Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep.
(16) For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
(17) Then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and
so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(18) Wherefore comfort one another with these
words.
1 Timothy
2:5-6 (5) For there is one God, and
one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (6) Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be
testified in due time.
3:16 And without controversy great is
the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the
Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world,
received up into glory.
Titus
2:13-14 (13) Looking for that
blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ; (14) Who gave himself for
us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a
peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Hebrews
1:1-3 (1) God, who at sundry times
and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
(2) Hath in these last days spoken unto
us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made
the worlds;
(3) Who being the brightness of his glory, and
the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his
power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high:
4:14-15 (14) Seeing then that we have
a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let
us hold fast our profession.
(15) For we have not an high priest which cannot
be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted
like as we are, yet without sin.
7:14-28 (14) For it is evident that
our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning
priesthood.
(15) And it is yet far more evident: for that
after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest,
(16) Who is made, not after the law of
a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
(17) For he testifieth, Thou art a
priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. (18) For there is verily a disannulling
of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
(19) For the law made nothing perfect,
but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
(20) And inasmuch as not without an
oath he was made priest:
(21) (For those priests were made without an
oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will
not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
(22) By so much was Jesus made a surety
of a better testament.
(23) And they truly were many priests, because
they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
(24) But this man, because he
continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. (25) Wherefore he is able also to save
them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make
intercession for them.
(26) For such an high priest became us, who is
holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the
heavens;
(27) Who needeth not daily, as those high
priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the
people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
(28) For the law maketh men high
priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law,
maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
9:12-15 (12) Neither by the blood of
goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us. (13) For if the blood of bulls and of
goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the
purifying of the flesh:
(14) How much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
(15) And for this cause he is the
mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the
transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
9:24-28 (24) For Christ is not
entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true;
but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
(25) Nor yet that he should offer
himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with
blood of others;
(26) For then must he often have suffered since
the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
(27) And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this the judgment: (28) So Christ was once offered to bear
the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and
finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of
God.
13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday,
and to day, and for ever.
1 Peter
2:21-25 (21) For even hereunto were
ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye
should follow his steps:
(22) Who did no sin, neither was guile found in
his mouth:
(23) Who, when he was reviled, reviled
not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him
that judgeth righteously:
(24) Who his own self bare our sins in his own
body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:
by whose stripes ye were healed.
(25) For ye were as sheep going astray; but are
now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is
on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject
unto him.
1 John
1:7-9 (7) But if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood
of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (8) If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (9) If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of
God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
4:14-15 (14) And we have seen and do
testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
(15) Whosoever shall confess that Jesus
is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
5:9 If we receive the witness of
men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath
testified of his Son.
2 John
1:7-9 (7) For many deceivers are
entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.
This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
(8) Look to yourselves, that we lose not those
things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
(9) Whosoever transgresseth, and
abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the
doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
Revelation
1:13-16 (13) And in the midst of the
seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to
the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
(14) His head and his hairs were white
like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; (15)
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice
as the sound of many waters.
(16) And he had in his right hand seven stars:
and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the
sun shineth in his strength.
5:9-14 (9)
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open
the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood
out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
(10) And hast made us unto our God
kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
(11) And I beheld, and I heard the
voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and
the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of
thousands;
(12) Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb
that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and
honour, and glory, and blessing.
(13) And every creature which is in heaven, and
on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are
in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him
that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
(14) And the four beasts said, Amen.
And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever
and ever.
12:10-11 (10) And I heard a loud voice
saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our
God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down,
which accused them before our God day and night. (11) And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their
lives unto the death.
13:8 And all that dwell upon the
earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the
Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
19:16 And he hath on his vesture and
on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
C. God the Holy Spirit
Genesis
1:2 And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.
Judges
14:6 And the Spirit of the LORD came
mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had
nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
Job
26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished
the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. Psalm 51:11
Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
139:7 Whither shall I go from thy
spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Isaiah
61:1-3 (1) The Spirit of the Lord GOD
is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the
meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; (2)
To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our
God; to comfort all that mourn; (3)
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the
oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that
they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he
might be glorified.
Joel
2:28-32 (28) And it shall come to pass
afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall
see visions: (29)
And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out
my spirit. (30)
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and
pillars of smoke. (31)
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great
and terrible day of the LORD come. (32)
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD
shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as
the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
Matthew
1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was
on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came
together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized,
went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him,
and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the spirit
into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
12:28-32 (28) But if I cast out devils
by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. (29)
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except
he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. (30) He that is not
with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. (31)
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto
men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. (32) And
whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but
whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither
in this world, neither in the world to come.
28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost:
Mark
1:10 And straightway coming up out of
the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon
him:
1:12 And immediately the spirit driveth
him into the wilderness.
Luke
1:35 And the angel answered and said
unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest
shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of
thee shall be called the Son of God.
4:1 And Jesus being full of the Holy
Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
4:18-19 (18) The Spirit of the Lord is
upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath
sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, (19)
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how
to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
12:12 For the Holy Ghost shall teach
you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
24:49 And, behold, I send the promise
of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued
with power from on high.
John
4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
14:16-17 (16) And I will pray the
Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for
ever; (17)
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him
not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall
be in you.
14:26 But the Comforter, which is the
Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
15:26 But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which
proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
16:7-14 (7)Nevertheless I tell you the
truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. (8)
And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and
of judgment: (9)
Of sin, because they believe not on me; (10)
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; (11) Of judgment,
because the prince of this world is judged. (12)
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. (13) Howbeit when
he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall
not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he
will shew you things to come. (14)
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
Acts
1:8 But ye shall receive power, after
that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in
Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the
earth.
2:1-4 (1) And when the day of Pentecost
was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. (2)
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it
filled all the house where they were sitting. (3)
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon
each of them. (4)
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent,
and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission
of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
4:31 And when they had prayed, the
place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
5:3 But
Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost,
and to keep back part of the price of the land?
6:3
Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of
the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
7:55 But
he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the
glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
8:17 Then laid they their hands on
them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
8:39 And when they were come up out of
the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no
more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
10:44 While Peter yet spake these
words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
13:2 As they ministered to the Lord,
and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work
whereunto I have called them.
15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy
Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
16:6 Now when they had gone throughout
Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to
preach the word in Asia,
19:1-6 (1) And it came to pass, that,
while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came
to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
(2) He said unto them, Have ye received
the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as
heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. (3)
And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto
John's baptism. (4)
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto
the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that
is, on Christ Jesus. (5)
When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. (6) And when Paul
had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with
tongues, and prophesied.
Romans
8:9-11 (9) But ye are not in the flesh,
but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. (10)
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life
because of righteousness. (11)
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he
that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you.
8:14-16 (14) For as many as are led by
the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (15)
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have
received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (16) The Spirit
itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
8:26-27 (26) Likewise the Spirit also
helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered. (27)
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because
he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
I
Corinthians
2:10-14 (10) But God hath revealed them
unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things
of God. (11)
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in
him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. (12) Now we have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we
might know the things that are freely given to us of God. (13) Which things
also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (14) But the natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto
him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple
of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
12:3-11 (3) Wherefore I give you to
understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed:
and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. (4)
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. (5) And there are
differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
(6) And there are diversities of
operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. (7) But the
manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. (8) For to one is
given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the
same Spirit; (9)
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same
Spirit; (10)
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning
of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of
tongues: (11)
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man
severally as he will.
Galatians
4:6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent
forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Ephesians
1:13-14 (13) In whom ye also trusted,
after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom
also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, (14)
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession, unto the praise of his glory.
4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of
God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
5:18 And be not drunk with wine,
wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
I
Thessalonians
5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
I Timothy
3:16 And without controversy great is the
mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit,
seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received
up into glory.
4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
II Timothy
1:14 That good thing which was committed
unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Hebrews
9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying,
that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the
first tabernacle was yet standing:
9:14 How much more shall the blood of
Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
II Peter
1:21 For the prophecy came not in old
time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the
Holy Ghost.
I John
4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in
him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
5:6-7 (6) This is he that came by water
and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it
is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. (7)
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Revelation
1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say,
Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
III. Man
1:26-30 (26)
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth. (27)
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male
and female created he them. (28)
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth. (29)
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon
the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree
yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. (30)
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every
thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every
green herb for meat: and it was so.
2:5 And
every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field
before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and
there was not a man to till the ground.
2:7 And
the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
2:18-22 (18)
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make
him an help meet for him. (19)
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every
fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and
whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. (20) And Adam gave
names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the
field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. (21) And the LORD
God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his
ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; (22)
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought
her unto the man.
3:1-24 (1) Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of
the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God
said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
(2) And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: (3) But of the fruit
of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat
of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. (4)
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: (5) For God doth
know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye
shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (6) And
when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to
the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit
thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. (7) And the
eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they
sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. (8) And they heard
the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam
and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees
of the garden. (9)
And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? (10) And he said, I
heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid
myself. (11)
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree,
whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? (12) And the man
said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I
did eat. (13)
And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the
woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. (14) And the LORD
God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above
all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go,
and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
(15) And I will put enmity between thee
and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and
thou shalt bruise his heel. (16) Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply
thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and
thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. (17) And unto Adam
he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten
of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed
is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy
life; (18)
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the
herb of the field; (19)
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
return. (20)
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. (21) Unto
Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed
them. (22)
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and
evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life,
and eat, and live for ever: (23)
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the
ground from whence he was taken. (24) So he drove out the man; and he placed at the
east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every
way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
9:6 Whoso
sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God
made he man.
Psalms
1:1-6 (1) Blessed is the man that
walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. (2) But his delight
is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. (3) And he shall be
like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his
season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. (4) The
ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
(5)
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the
congregation of the righteous. (6)
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall
perish.
8:3-6 (3)
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained; (4)
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou
visitest him? (5)
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with
glory and honour. (6)
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all
things under his feet:
32:1-5 (1)
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. (2) Blessed is the
man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no
guile. (3)
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. (4) For day
and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of
summer. Selah. (5)
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will
confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my
sin. Selah.
51:5 Behold,
I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Isaiah
6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and
I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the
King, the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah
17:5
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Matthew
16:26 For what is a man profited,
if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man
give in exchange for his soul?
Acts
17:26-31 (26) And hath made of one blood all nations of
men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times
before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; (27) That they
should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though
he be not far from every one of us: (28)
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own
poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
(29) Forasmuch then as we are the
offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or
silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
(30) And the times of this ignorance God
winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (31) Because he hath
appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that
man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that
he hath raised him from the dead.
Romans
1:19-32 (19)
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed
it unto them. (20)
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and
Godhead; so that they are without excuse: (21)
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was
darkened. (22)
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (23) And changed the
glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and
to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. (24) Wherefore God
also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to
dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (25)
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature
more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. (26) For this cause
God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the
natural use into that which is against nature: (27)
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. (28) And even as
they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; (29) Being filled
with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, (30) Backbiters,
haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, (31)
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful: (32)
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
3:10-18 (10)
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
(11) There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God. (12)
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there
is none that doeth good, no, not one. (13)
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the
poison of asps is under their lips: (14) Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: (15) Their
feet are swift to shed blood: (16)
Destruction and misery are in their ways: (17) And the way of peace have they not known: (18) There is
no fear of God before their eyes.
3:23 For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
5:6 For
when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
5:19 For
as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one
shall many be made righteous.
6:6
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might
be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7:14-25 (14)
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (15) For that which
I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. (16) If then
I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. (17) Now then it is
no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
(18) For I know that in me (that is, in my
flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to
perform that which is good I find not. (19)
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. (20) Now if I
do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. (21) I find
then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. (22) For I delight
in the law of God after the inward man: (23)
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. (24) O wretched man
that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? (25) I thank God
through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of
God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
8:14-18 (14)
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. (15) For ye have not
received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (16)
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God: (17) And
if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be
that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. (18) For I reckon
that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us.
8:29 For
whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of
his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
I Corinthians
1:21-31 (21) For after that in the wisdom of God the
world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to
save them that believe. (22)
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: (23) But we preach
Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks
foolishness; (24)
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God,
and the wisdom of God. (25) Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men;
and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (26)
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh,
not many mighty, not many noble, are called: (27)
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and
God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are
mighty; (28)
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen,
yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: (29) That no flesh
should glory in his presence. (30)
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: (31) That, according
as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
15:19 If in
this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
15:21-22 (21)
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. (22) For as
in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
Ephesians
2:1-22 (1)
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; (2) Wherein in time
past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of
the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience: (3) Among whom also we all had our conversation in
times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of
the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. (4) But God, who is
rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, (5) Even when we
were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are
saved;) (6)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus: (7)
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his
kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (8)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the
gift of God: (9)
Not of works, lest any man should boast. (10)
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God
hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
(11) Wherefore remember, that ye being in
time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is
called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; (12) That at that
time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the
world: (13)
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood
of Christ. (14)
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle
wall of partition between us; (15)
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained
in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; (16) And that
he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the
enmity thereby: (17) And came and preached peace to you which were
afar off, and to them that were nigh. (18) For through him we both have access by one Spirit
unto the Father. (19) Now therefore ye are no more strangers and
foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; (20) And are
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner stone; (21) In whom all the building fitly framed together
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: (22)
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the
Spirit.
Colossians
1:21-22 (21)
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now hath he reconciled (22) In
the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight:
3:9-11 (9) Lie not one to another,
seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; (10) And have put on
the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created
him: (11)
Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision,
Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Genesis
3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her
seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Exodus
3:14-17 (13) And
God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. (15) And God said moreover unto Moses,
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto
you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
(16) Go, and gather the elders of
Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of
Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited
you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt: (17) And I have said, I will bring you
up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
6:2-8 (2) And
God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:
(3) And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God
Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
(4) And I have also established my
covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their
pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
(5) And I have also heard the groaning of the
children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my
covenant.
(6) Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I
am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians,
and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched
out arm, and with great judgments:
(7) And I will take you to me for a people, and I
will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which
bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
(8) And I will bring you in unto the
land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the LORD.
Matthew
1:21
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he
shall save his people from their sins.
4:17
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
16:21-26 (21)From
that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto
Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes,
and be killed, and be raised again the third day. (22) Then Peter took him, and began to
rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.
(23) But he turned, and said unto
Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou
savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
(24) Then said Jesus unto his
disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his
cross, and follow me.
(25) For whosoever will save his life shall lose
it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
(26) For what is a man profited, if he
shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in
exchange for his soul?
27:22-66 (22) Pilate saith unto them,
What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him,
Let him be crucified.
(23) And the governor said, Why, what evil hath
he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
(24) When Pilate saw that he could
prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed
his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just
person: see ye to it.
(25) Then answered all the people, and said, His
blood be on us, and on our children.
(26) Then released he Barabbas unto them: and
when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
(27) Then the soldiers of the governor
took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of
soldiers.
(28) And they stripped him, and put on him a
scarlet robe.
(29)And when they had platted a crown of thorns,
they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee
before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
(30) And they spit upon him, and took
the reed, and smote him on the head.
(31) And after that they had mocked him, they
took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to
crucify him.
(32) And as they came out, they found a man of
Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.
(33) And when they were come unto a
place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
(34) They gave him vinegar to drink
mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.
(35) And they crucified him, and parted
his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the
prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast
lots.
(36) And sitting down they watched him there; (37) And set up over his head his
accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
(38) Then were there two thieves
crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
(39) And they that passed by reviled
him, wagging their heads,
(40) And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple,
and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come
down from the cross.
(41) Likewise also the chief priests mocking him,
with the scribes and elders, said,
(42) He saved others; himself he cannot save. If
he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will
believe him.
(43) He trusted in God; let him deliver him now,
if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
(44) The thieves also, which were
crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. (45) Now from the sixth hour there was
darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. (46) And about the ninth hour Jesus
cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My
God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
(47) Some of them that stood there, when they
heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. (48) And straightway one of them ran,
and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave
him to drink.
(49)The rest said, Let be, let us see whether
Elias will come to save him.
(50) Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud
voice, yielded up the ghost.
(51) And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent
in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks
rent;
(52) And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept
arose,
(53) And came out of the graves after his
resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
(54) Now when the centurion, and they
that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that
were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
(55) And many women were there
beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
(56) Among which was Mary Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children.
(57) When the even was come, there came
a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:
(58) He went to Pilate, and begged the
body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
(59) And when Joseph had taken the
body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, (60) And laid it in his own new tomb,
which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of
the sepulchre, and departed.
(61) And there was Mary Magdalene, and the
other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre. (62) Now the next day, that followed
the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto
Pilate,
(63) Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver
said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
(64) Command therefore that the
sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night,
and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the
last error shall be worse than the first. (65) Pilate said unto them, Ye have a
watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can. (66) So they went, and made the
sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
28:1-6 (1) In the end of the sabbath,
as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and
the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
(2) And, behold, there was a great earthquake:
for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the
stone from the door, and sat upon it.
(3) His countenance was like lightning, and
his raiment white as snow:
(4) And for fear of him the keepers did shake,
and became as dead men.
(5) And the angel answered and said unto the
women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
(6) He is not here: for he is risen, as
he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Luke
1:68-69 (68)
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
(69) And hath raised up an horn of
salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
2:28-32 (28) Then took he him up in
his arms, and blessed God, and said,
(29) Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart
in peace, according to thy word:
(30) For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
(31) Which thou hast prepared before
the face of all people;
(32) A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the
glory of thy people Israel.
John
1:11-14 (11) He came
unto his own, and his own received him not. (12) But as many as received him, to
them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his
name:
(13) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of God.
(14) And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among
us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.
1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus
coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of
the world.
3:3-21 (3) Jesus answered and said
unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God.
(4) Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be
born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be
born?
(5) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of
water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
(6) That which is born of the flesh is
flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
(7) Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.
(8) The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou
hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it
goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (9) Nicodemus answered and said unto
him, How can these things be?
(10) Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a
master of Israel, and knowest not these things? (11) Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our
witness.
(12) If I have told you earthly things, and ye
believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
(13) And no man hath ascended up to
heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in
heaven.
(14) And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
(15) That whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have eternal life. (16) For God so loved the world, that
he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.
(17) For God sent not his Son into the world to
condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
(18) He that believeth on him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
(19) And this is the condemnation, that
light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil.
(20) For every one that doeth evil hateth the
light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
(21) But he that doeth truth cometh to
the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
3:36 He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but
the wrath of God abideth on him.
5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting
life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
10:9 I am the door: by me if any man
enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10:28-29 (28) And I give unto them
eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out
of my hand.
(29) My Father, which gave them me, is greater
than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
15:1-16 (1) I am the true vine, and
my Father is the husbandman.
(2) Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he
taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may
bring forth more fruit.
(3) Now ye are clean through the word which I
have spoken unto you.
(4) Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except
ye abide in me.
(5) I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that
abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me
ye can do nothing.
(6) If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as
a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and
they are burned.
(7) If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
(8) Herein is my Father glorified, that
ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. (9) As the Father hath loved me, so
have I loved you: continue ye in my love. (10) If ye keep my commandments, ye
shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide
in his love.
(11) These things have I spoken unto you, that my
joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
(12) This is my commandment, That ye
love one another, as I have loved you.
(13) Greater love hath no man than this, that
a man lay down his life for his friends.
(14) Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I
command you.
(15) Henceforth I call you not servants; for the
servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all
things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
(16) Ye have not chosen me, but I have
chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that
your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name,
he may give it you.
17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth:
thy word is truth.
Acts
2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved.
4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
15:11
But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be
saved, even as they.
16:30-31 (30)
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
(31) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
17:30-31 (30) And the times of this ignorance God winked at;
but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (31) Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he
will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof
he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
20:32
And now, brethren, I commend you to
God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give
you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Romans
1:16-18 (16) For I am
not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation
to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
(17) For therein is the righteousness
of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by
faith.
(18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in
unrighteousness;
2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of
his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of
God leadeth thee to repentance?
3:23-25 (23) For all have sinned, and
come short of the glory of God;
(24) Being justified freely by his grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
(25) Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
4:3 For what saith the scripture?
Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
5:8-10 (8) But God commendeth his
love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(9) Much more then, being now justified
by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
(10) For if, when we were enemies, we
were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by his life.
6:1-23 (1) What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? (2) God forbid. How shall we, that are
dead to sin, live any longer therein?
(3) Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
(4) Therefore we are buried with him by
baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
(5) For if we have been planted
together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection:
(6) Knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not
serve sin.
(7) For he that is dead is freed from sin.
(8) Now if we be dead with Christ, we
believe that we shall also live with him: (9) Knowing that Christ being raised
from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
(10) For in that he died, he died unto
sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
(11) Likewise reckon ye also yourselves
to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(12) Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
(13) Neither yield ye your members as
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those
that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness
unto God.
(14) For sin shall not have dominion over you:
for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (15) What then? shall we sin, because
we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
(16) Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin
unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (17 ) But God be thanked, that ye were
the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine
which was delivered you.
(18 ) Being then made free from sin, ye became
the servants of righteousness.
(19) I speak after the manner of men because of
the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to
uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members
servants to righteousness unto holiness.
(20) For when ye were the servants of sin, ye
were free from righteousness.
(21) What fruit had ye then in those things
whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
(22) But now being made free from sin,
and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting life.
(23) For the wages of sin is death; but the gift
of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
8:1-18 (1) There is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
(3) For what the law could not do, in
that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
(4) That the righteousness of the law
might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
(5) For they that are after the flesh
do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things
of the Spirit.
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against
God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh
cannot please God.
(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not
the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead
because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that
raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the
dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are
debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
(13) For if ye live after the flesh, ye
shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God.
(15) For ye have not received the spirit of
bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we
cry, Abba, Father.
(16) The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God:
(17) And if children, then heirs; heirs of
God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may
be also glorified together.
(18) For I reckon that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be
revealed in us.
8:29-39 (29) For whom he did
foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that
he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (30) Moreover whom he did predestinate,
them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he
justified, them he also glorified.
(31) What shall we then say to these things? If
God be for us, who can be against us?
(32) He that spared not his own Son, but
delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all
things?
(33) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
(34) Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ
that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also maketh intercession for us. (35) Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
(36) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed
all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
(37) Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him that loved us. (38) For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come,
( 39) Nor height, nor depth, nor any other
creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
10:9-10 (9) That if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
(10) For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
10:13 For whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved.
13:11-14 (11) And that, knowing the
time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed.
(12) The night is far spent, the day is at hand:
let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of
light.
(13) Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in
rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and
envying.
(14) But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
I Corinthians
1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
1:30
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
6:19-20 (19) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of
the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
(20) For
ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his
grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly
than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
II
Corinthians
5:17-20 (17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us
to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
(19)
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation.
(20) Now
then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray
you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Galatians
2:20
I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in
me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of
God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the
law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that
hangeth on a tree:
5:22-25 (22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, (23)
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
(24) And they that are Christ's have crucified the
flesh with the affections and lusts.
(25) If we
live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth
any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Ephesians
1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
2:8-22 (8)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the
gift of God:
(9) Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
(10) For we
are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath
before ordained that we should walk in them. (11)
Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are
called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made
by hands;
(12) That
at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without
God in the world:
(13) But
now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of
Christ.
(14) For he
is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of
partition between us;
(15) Having
abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in
ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
(16) And that he might reconcile both unto God in one
body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
(17) And came and preached peace to you which were
afar off, and to them that were nigh.
(18) For
through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
(19)
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with
the saints, and of the household of God;
(20) And
are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner stone;
(21) In
whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the
Lord:
(22) In whom ye also are builded together
for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
4:11-16 (11) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets;
and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
(12)
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying
of the body of Christ:
(13) Till
we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
(14) That
we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with
every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby
they lie in wait to deceive;
(15) But
speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the
head, even Christ:
(16) From
whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every
joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every
part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Philippians
2:12-13 (12) Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in
my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling.
(13) For
it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Colossians
1:9-22 (9)
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,
and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding; (10) That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all
pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of
God;
(11) Strengthened with all might,
according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with
joyfulness;
(12) Giving
thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light:
(13) Who
hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the
kingdom of his dear Son:
(14) In
whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
(15) Who is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of every creature:
(16) For by
him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible
and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or
powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
(17) And he is before all things, and by him all
things consist.
(18) And he
is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from
the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
(19) For it pleased the Father that in him should all
fulness dwell;
(20) And,
having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things
unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in
heaven.
(21) And
you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet
now hath he reconciled
(22) In the
body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and
unreproveable in his sight:
3:1
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ
sitteth on the right hand of God.
I
Thessalonians
5:23-24 (23)
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit
and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
(24)
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
II
Timothy
1:12 For the which
cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom
I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have
committed unto him against that day.
Titus
2:11-14 (11) For the
grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
(12) Teaching us that, denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly,
in this present world;
(13) Looking for that blessed hope, and the
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
(14) Who gave himself for us, that he
might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people,
zealous of good works.
Hebrews
2:1-3 (1)
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have
heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. (2) For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast,
and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
(3) How shall we escape, if we neglect so great
salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed
unto us by them that heard him;
5:8-9 (8) Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by
the things which he suffered;
(9) And
being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey him;
9:24-25 (28) For Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now
to appear in the presence of God for us:
(25) Nor
yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the
holy place every year with blood of others; (26) For then must he often have suffered since the
foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared
to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. (27)
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
(28) So
Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for
him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
11:1-40 (1) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.
(2) For by it the elders obtained a good report.
(3) Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things
which do appear.
(4) By
faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it
he being dead yet speaketh.
(5) By faith Enoch was translated that he
should not see death; and was not found,
because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this
testimony, that he pleased God.
(6) But
without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must
believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
(7) By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not
seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the
which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by
faith.
(8) By
faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after
receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he
went.
(9) By faith he sojourned in the land of
promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob,
the heirs with him of the same promise:
(10) For
he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
(11) Through faith also Sara herself received strength
to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because
she judged him faithful who had promised. (12)
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the
stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore
innumerable.
(13) These
all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar
off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
(14) For
they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
(15) And truly, if they had been mindful of that
country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have
returned.
(16) But
now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
(17) By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up
Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
(18) Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed
be called:
(19)
Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence
also he received him in a figure. (20) By
faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
(21) By faith Jacob, when he was a
dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of
his staff.
(22) By
faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of
Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. (23)
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because
they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's
commandment.
(24) By
faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter;
(25) Choosing rather to suffer affliction with
the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
(26) Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches
than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the
reward.
(27) By
faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as
seeing him who is invisible.
(28)
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that
destroyed the firstborn should touch them. (29) By faith they passed through the Red sea as by
dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
(30)
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven
days.
(31) By faith the harlot Rahab perished
not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
(32) And what shall I more say? for the time would
fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of
David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: (33) Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
(34) Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge
of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned
to flight the armies of the aliens.
(35) Women
received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not
accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
(36)
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds
and imprisonment:
(37) They
were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword:
they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted,
tormented;
(38) (Of
whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and
in dens and caves of the earth.
(39) And
these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the
promise:
(40) God
having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be
made perfect.
12:1-8 (1) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which
doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set
before us,
(2) Looking
unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right
hand of the throne of God.
(3) For
consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye
be wearied and faint in your minds.
(4) Ye have
not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. (5) And ye have forgotten the exhortation which
speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of
the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: (6) For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and
scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
(7) If
ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom
the father chasteneth not?
(8) But if
ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and
not sons.
1:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the
Lord:
James
2:14-26 (14) What doth
it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can
faith save him?
(15) If a brother or sister be naked, and
destitute of daily food,
(16) And one of you say unto them, Depart in
peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things
which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
(17) Even so faith, if it hath not
works, is dead, being alone.
(18) Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I
have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith
by my works.
(19) Thou believest that there is one God; thou
doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. (20) But wilt thou know, O vain man,
that faith without works is dead?
(21) Was not Abraham our father justified by
works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
(22) Seest thou how faith wrought with
his works, and by works was faith made perfect? (23) And the scripture was fulfilled
which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for
righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
(24) Ye see then how that by works a
man is justified, and not by faith only.
(25) Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot
justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out
another way?
(26) For as the body without the spirit is dead,
so faith without works is dead also.
I Peter
1:2-23 (2) Elect
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the
Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto
you, and peace, be multiplied. (3) Blessed be the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us
again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
(4) To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
(5) Who are kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
(6) Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though
now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
(7) That the trial of your faith, being
much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire,
might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus
Christ:
(8) Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom,
though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and
full of glory: (9) Receiving the end of your faith, even the
salvation of your souls.
(10) Of which salvation the prophets have
enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come
unto you:
(11) Searching what, or what manner of time the
Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
(12) Unto whom it was revealed, that
not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now
reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy
Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
(13) Wherefore gird up the loins of
your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought
unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; (14) As obedient children, not
fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
(15) But as he which hath called you is
holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; (16) Because it is written, Be ye holy;
for I am holy.
(17) And if ye call on the Father, who without
respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your
sojourning here in fear:
(18) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not
redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
(19) But with the precious blood of
Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
(20) Who verily was foreordained before
the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
(21) Who by him do believe in God, that
raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might
be in God.
(22) Seeing ye have purified your souls in
obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see
that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
(23) Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever.
I John
1:6-10 (6) If we say
that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the
truth:
(7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his
Son cleanseth us from all sin.
(8) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
(9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(10) If we say that we have not sinned,
we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
2:1-11 (1) My little children, these
things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
(2) And he is the propitiation for our
sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
(3) And hereby we do know that we know
him, if we keep his commandments.
(4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not
his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
(5) But whoso keepeth his word, in him
verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
(6) He that saith he abideth in him
ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. (7) Brethren, I write no new
commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning.
The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
(8) Again, a new commandment I write
unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past,
and the true light now shineth.
(9) He that saith he is in the light, and hateth
his brother, is in darkness even until now. (10) He that loveth his brother abideth
in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
(11) But he that hateth his brother is
in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because
that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Revelation
3:20 Behold, I
stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I
will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
12:1-17 (1) And
there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
(2) And she being with child cried,
travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. (3) And there appeared another wonder
in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and
seven crowns upon his heads.
(4) And his tail drew the third part of the stars
of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman
which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
(5) And she brought forth a man child,
who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto
God, and to his throne.
(6) And the woman fled into the wilderness, where
she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two
hundred and threescore days.
(7) And there was war in heaven: Michael and his
angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
(8) And prevailed not; neither was
their place found any more in heaven.
(9) And the great dragon was cast out, that
old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he
was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
(10) And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and
strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the
accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and
night.
(11) And they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto
the death.
(12) Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil
is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a
short time.
(13) And when the dragon saw that he was cast
unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
(14) And to the woman were given two
wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place,
where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of
the serpent.
(15) And the serpent cast out of his mouth water
as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the
flood.
(16) And the earth helped the woman, and the
earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of
his mouth.
(17) And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and
went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of
God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
13:1-18 (1) And I stood upon the sand
of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten
horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
(2) And the beast which I saw was like
unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the
mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great
authority.
(3) And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded
to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the
beast.
(4) And they worshipped the dragon which gave
power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto
the beast? who is able to make war with him? (5) And there was given unto him a
mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to
continue forty and two months.
(6) And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against
God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
(7) And it was given unto him to make
war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all
kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
(8) And all that dwell upon the earth shall
worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world.
(9) If any man have an ear, let him hear.
(10) He that leadeth into captivity
shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the
sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
(11) And I beheld another beast coming
up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
(12) And he exerciseth all the power of
the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein
to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
(13) And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on
the earth in the sight of men,
(14) And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth
by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the
beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to
the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
(15) And he had power to give life unto
the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause
that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
(16) And he causeth all, both small and
great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or
in their foreheads:
(17) And that no man might buy or sell, save he
that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
(18) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath
understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and
his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
14:1-20 (1) And I looked, and, lo, a
Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand,
having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
(2) And I heard a voice from heaven, as
the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the
voice of harpers harping with their harps: (3) And they sung as it were a new song
before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could
learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed
from the earth.
(4) These are they which were not defiled with
women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever
he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and
to the Lamb.
(5) And in their mouth was found no guile: for
they are without fault before the throne of God. (6) And I saw another angel fly in the
midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on
the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
(7) Saying with a loud voice, Fear God,
and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him
that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
(8) And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that
great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her
fornication.
(9) And the third angel followed them, saying
with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
(10) The same shall drink of the wine of the
wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his
indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
(11) And the smoke of their torment
ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship
the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
(12) Here is the patience of the
saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
(13) And I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and
their works do follow them.
(14) And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and
upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden
crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
(15) And another angel came out of the temple,
crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and
reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is
ripe.
(16) And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the
earth was reaped.
(17) And another angel came out of the temple
which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. (18) And another angel came out from
the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had
the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of
the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
(19) And the angel thrust in his sickle
into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great
winepress of the wrath of God.
(20) And the winepress was trodden without the
city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the
space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
15:1-8 (1) And I saw another sign in
heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in
them is filled up the wrath of God.
(2) And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled
with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his
image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of
glass, having the harps of God.
(3) And they sing the song of Moses the servant
of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works,
Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
(4) Who shall not fear thee, O Lord,
and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and
worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.
(5) And after that I looked, and,
behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
(6) And the seven angels came out of
the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and
having their breasts girded with golden girdles. (7) And one of the four beasts gave
unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth
for ever and ever.
(8) And the temple was filled with smoke from the
glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple,
till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
16:1-21 (1) And I heard a great voice
out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the
vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. (2) And the first went, and poured out
his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men
which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.
(3) And the second angel poured out his
vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living
soul died in the sea.
(4) And the third angel poured out his vial upon
the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
(5) And I heard the angel of the waters
say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou
hast judged thus.
(6) For they have shed the blood of saints and
prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
(7) And I heard another out of the
altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
(8) And the fourth angel poured out his
vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
(9) And men were scorched with great
heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and
they repented not to give him glory.
(10) And
the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom
was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
(11) And blasphemed the God of heaven
because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
(12) And the sixth angel poured out his
vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that
the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
(13) And I saw three unclean spirits
like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the
beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. (14) For they are the spirits of
devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the
whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
(15) Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed
is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see
his shame.
(16) And he gathered them together into a place
called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
(17) And the seventh angel poured out his vial
into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the
throne, saying, It is done.
(18) And there were voices, and thunders, and
lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were
upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
(19) And the great city was divided
into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in
remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness
of his wrath.
(20) And every island fled away, and the
mountains were not found.
(21) And there fell upon men a great hail out of
heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because
of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
17:1-18 (1) And there came one of the
seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come
hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon
many waters:
(2) With whom the kings of the earth have
committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk
with the wine of her fornication.
(3) So he carried me away in the spirit into the
wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names
of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. (4) And the woman was arrayed in purple
and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having
a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
(5) And upon her forehead was a name
written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF
THE EARTH.
(6) And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of
the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I
wondered with great admiration.
(7) And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst
thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that
carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
(8) The beast that thou sawest was, and
is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and
they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the
book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that
was, and is not, and yet is.
(9) And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The
seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
(10) And there are seven kings: five
are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he
must continue a short space.
(11) And the beast that was, and is not, even he
is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
(12) And the ten horns which thou
sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power
as kings one hour with the beast.
(13) These have one mind, and shall give their
power and strength unto the beast.
(14) These shall make war with the Lamb, and the
Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they
that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
(15) And he saith unto me, The waters
which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and
nations, and tongues.
(16) And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the
beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and
shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. (17) For God hath put in their hearts
to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until
the words of God shall be fulfilled.
(18) And the woman which thou sawest is that
great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
18:1-24 (1) And
after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great
power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. (2) And he cried mightily with a strong
voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the
habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every
unclean and hateful bird.
(3) For all nations have drunk of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication
with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of
her delicacies.
(4) And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and
that ye receive not of her plagues.
(5) For her sins have reached unto heaven, and
God hath remembered her iniquities.
(6) Reward her even as she rewarded you, and
double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled
fill to her double.
(7) How much she hath glorified herself, and
lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her
heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
(8) Therefore shall her plagues come in
one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with
fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. (9) And the kings of the earth, who
have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and
lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
(10) Standing afar off for the fear of
her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for
in one hour is thy judgment come.
(11) And the merchants of the earth shall weep
and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:
(12) The merchandise of gold, and
silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and
silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all
manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
(13) And cinnamon, and odours, and
ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and
beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.
(14) And the fruits that thy soul
lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly
are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.
(15) The merchants of these things,
which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment,
weeping and wailing,
(16) And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that
was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and
precious stones, and pearls!
(17) For in one hour so great riches is come to
nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as
many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
(18) And cried when they saw the smoke of her
burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city!
(19) And they cast dust on their heads,
and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were
made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one
hour is she made desolate.
(20) Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy
apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
(21) And a mighty angel took up a stone
like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence
shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
(22) And the voice of harpers, and
musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee;
and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee;
and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
(23) And the light of a candle shall
shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride
shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of
the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
(24) And in her was found the blood of
prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
19:1-21 (1) And after these things I
heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and
glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
(2) For true and righteous are his
judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with
her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
(3) And again they said, Alleluia And
her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
(4) And the four and twenty elders and the four
beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen;
Alleluia.
(5) And a voice came out of the throne, saying,
Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
(6) And I heard as it were the voice of
a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty
thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
(7) Let us be glad and rejoice, and
give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made
herself ready.
(8) And to her was granted that she should be
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness
of saints.
(9) And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they
which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me,
These are the true sayings of God.
(10) And I fell at his feet to worship him. And
he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren
that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the
spirit of prophecy.
(11) And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white
horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in
righteousness he doth judge and make war. (12) His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew,
but he himself.
(13) And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in
blood: and his name is called The Word of God. (14) And the armies which were in heaven followed
him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
(15) And out of his mouth goeth a sharp
sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a
rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God.
(16) And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh
a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (17) And I saw an angel standing in the
sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the
midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the
great God;
(18) That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the
flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of
them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small
and great.
(19) And I saw the beast, and the kings of the
earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on
the horse, and against his army.
(20) And the beast was taken, and with him the
false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that
had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These
both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
(21) And the remnant were slain with
the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his
mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
20:1-15 (1) And I saw an angel come
down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his
hand.
(2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and
Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
(3) And cast him into the bottomless pit, and
shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no
more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be
loosed a little season.
(4) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them,
and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their
foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand
years.
(5) But the rest of the dead lived not again
until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
(6) Blessed and holy is he that hath
part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they
shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand
years.
(7) And when the thousand years are expired,
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
(8) And shall go out to deceive the nations
which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them
together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
(9) And they went up on the breadth of
the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and
fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
(10) And the devil that deceived them
was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false
prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
(11) And I saw a great white throne,
and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and
there was found no place for them.
(12) And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the
book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books, according to their works.
(13) And the sea gave up the dead which were in
it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were
judged every man according to their works. (14) And death and hell were cast into
the lake of fire. This is the second death. (15) And whosoever was not found
written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
21:1-27 (1) And I saw a new heaven and
a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and
there was no more sea.
(2) And
I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. (3) And I heard a great voice out of
heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be
their God.
(4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
(5) And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words
are true and faithful. (6)
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life
freely.
(7) He that overcometh shall inherit all things;
and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (8) But the fearful, and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and
idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with
fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (9) And there came unto me one of the
seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and
talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's
wife.
(10) And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and
shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from
God,
(11) Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious,
even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; (12) And had a wall great and high, and
had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon,
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
(13) On the east three gates; on the
north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
(14) And the wall of the city had
twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
(15) And he that talked with me had a
golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
(16) And the city lieth foursquare, and
the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed,
twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are
equal.
(17) And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred
and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the
angel.
(18) And the building of the wall of it was of
jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
(19) And the foundations of the wall of
the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation
was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an
emerald;
(20) The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the
seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a
chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
(21) And the twelve gates were twelve
pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure
gold, as it were transparent glass.
(22) And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord
God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. (23) And the city had no need of the
sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it,
and the Lamb is the light thereof.
(24) And the nations of them which are saved
shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory
and honour into it.
(25) And the gates of it shall not be shut at all
by day: for there shall be no night there. (26) And they shall bring the glory and
honour of the nations into it.
(27) And there shall in no wise enter into it any
thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie:
but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
22:1-5 (1) And he shewed me a pure
river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb.
(2) In the midst of the street of it, and on
either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner
of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations.
(3) And there shall be no more curse: but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
(4) And they shall see his face; and
his name shall be in their foreheads.
(5) And there shall be no night there; and
they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them
light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Genesis
12:1-3 (1) Now the LORD had said
unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: (2) And I will make of thee a great
nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a
blessing:
(3) And I will bless them that bless thee, and
curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed.
Exodus
19:5-8 (5) Now therefore, if ye will
obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure
unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
(6) And ye shall be unto me a kingdom
of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto
the children of Israel.
(7) And Moses came and called for the elders of
the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded
him.
(8) And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath
spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
I Samuel
8:4-7 (4) Then all the elders of
Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
(5) And said unto him, Behold, thou art
old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all
the nations.
(6) But the thing displeased Samuel, when they
said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
(7) And the LORD said unto Samuel,
Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they
have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over
them.
8:19-22 (19) Nevertheless the people
refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king
over us;
(20) That we also may be like all the nations;
and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
(21) And Samuel heard all the words of
the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
(22) And the LORD said to Samuel,
Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of
Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
Isaiah
5:1-7 (1) Now will I sing to my
wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a
vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
(2) And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones
thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst
of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring
forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. (3) And now, O inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
(4) What could have been done more to
my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should
bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? (5) And now go to; I will tell you what
I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be
eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
(6) And I will lay it waste: it shall
not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will
also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
(7) For the vineyard of the LORD of
hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he
looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Jeremiah
31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the
LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the
house of Judah:
Matthew
16:18-19 (18) And I say also unto
thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it. (19) And I will give unto thee the keys
of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound
in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
21:28-45 (28) But what think ye? A
certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to
day in my vineyard.
(29) He answered and said, I will not: but
afterward he repented, and went.
(30) And he came to the second, and said
likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.
(31) Whether of them twain did the will
of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say
unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before
you.
(32) For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him
not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen
it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
(33) Hear another parable: There was a
certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and
digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and
went into a far country:
(34) And when the time of the fruit drew near, he
sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
(35) And the husbandmen took his
servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
(36) Again, he sent other servants more
than the first: and they did unto them likewise. (37) But last of all he sent unto them
his son, saying, They will reverence my son. (38) But when the husbandmen saw the
son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and
let us seize on his inheritance.
(39) And they caught him, and cast him out of the
vineyard, and slew him.
(40) When the lord therefore of the vineyard
cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? (41) They say unto him, He will
miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other
husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
(42) Jesus saith unto them, Did ye
never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is
become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in
our eyes?
(43) Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God
shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits
thereof.
(44) And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall
be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
(45) And when the chief priests and
Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.
24:22 And except those days should be
shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days
shall be shortened.
24:31 And he shall send his angels
with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from
the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
25:34 Then shall the King say unto
them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
Luke
1:68-79 (68) Blessed be the Lord God
of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
(69) And hath raised up an horn of
salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
(70) As he spake by the mouth of his
holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
(71) That we should be saved from our
enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; (72) To perform the mercy promised to
our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; (73) The oath which he sware to our
father Abraham,
(74) That he would grant unto us, that we being
delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
(75) In holiness and righteousness
before him, all the days of our life. (76)
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go
before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; (77) To give knowledge of salvation
unto his people by the remission of their sins, (78) Through the tender mercy of our
God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
(79) To give light to them that sit in
darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
2:29-32 (29) Lord, now lettest thou
thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
(30) For mine eyes have seen thy
salvation,
(31) Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
(32) A light to lighten the Gentiles,
and the glory of thy people Israel.
19:41-44 (41) And when he was come near, he
beheld the city, and wept over it,
(42) Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at
least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are
hid from thine eyes.
(43) For the days shall come upon thee, that
thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep
thee in on every side,
(44) And shall lay thee even with the ground, and
thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon
another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
24:44-48 (44) And he said unto them,
These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all
things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. (45) Then opened he their
understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
(46) And said unto them, Thus it is
written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the
third day: (47) And
that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all
nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
(48) And ye are witnesses of these things.
John
1:12-14 (12) But as many as received
him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe
on his name: (13)
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of God.
(14) And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among
us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth.
3:16 For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.
5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting
life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
6:44-45 (44) No man can come to me,
except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the
last day.
(45) It is written in the prophets, And they
shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath
learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
6:65 And he said, Therefore said I
unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my
Father.
10:27-29 (27) My sheep hear my voice,
and I know them, and they follow me:
(28) And I give unto them eternal life; and they
shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
(29) My Father, which gave them me, is
greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I
have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and
that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my
name, he may give it you.
17:6 I have manifested thy name unto
the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest
them me; and they have kept thy word.
17:12 While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none
of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be
fulfilled.
17:17-18 (17) Sanctify them through
thy truth: thy word is truth.
(18) As thou hast sent me into the world, even so
have I also sent them into the world.
Acts
20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you
to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give
you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Romans
5:9-10 (9)
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him.
(10) For if, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall
be saved by his life.
8:28-39 (28) And we know that all
things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called
according to his purpose.
(29) For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren.
(30) Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he
also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified,
them he also glorified.
(31) What shall we then say to these things? If
God be for us, who can be against us?
(32) He that spared not his own Son, but
delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all
things?
(33) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of
God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
(34) Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ
that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of
God, who also maketh intercession for us. (35) Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
(36) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed
all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
(37) Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him that loved us. (38)
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
(39) Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
10:12-15 (12) For there is no
difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich
unto all that call upon him.
(13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved.
(14) How then shall they call on him in whom they
have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not
heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (15) And how shall they preach, except
they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach
the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
11:5-7 (5) Even so then at this
present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
(6) And if by grace, then is it no more
of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no
more grace: otherwise work is no more work. (7) What then? Israel hath not obtained
that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were
blinded.
11:26-36 (26) And so all Israel shall
be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and
shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
(27) For this is my covenant unto them, when I
shall take away their sins.
(28) As concerning the gospel, they are enemies
for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's
sakes.
(29) For the gifts and calling of God are without
repentance.
(30) For as ye in times past have not believed
God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
(31) Even so have these also now not
believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
(32) For God hath concluded them all in
unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. (33) O the depth of the riches both of
the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his
ways past finding out!
(34) For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or
who hath been his counsellor?
(35) Or who hath first given to him, and it shall
be recompensed unto him again?
(36) For of him, and through him, and to him, are
all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
I
Corinthians
1:1-2 (1) Paul called to be an
apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
(2) Unto the church of God which is at
Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with
all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both
their's and our's:
15:24-28 (24)Then cometh the end, when
he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall
have put down all rule and all authority and power.
(25) For he must reign, till he hath
put all enemies under his feet.
(26) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is
death.
(27) For he hath put all things under his feet.
But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is
excepted, which did put all things under him. (28) And when all things shall be
subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put
all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Ephesians
1:4-23 (4) According as he hath
chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love:
(5) Having predestinated us unto the adoption of
children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
(6) To the praise of the glory of his
grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
(7) In whom we have redemption through
his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
(8) Wherein he hath abounded toward us
in all wisdom and prudence;
(9) Having made known unto us the mystery of his
will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
(10) That in the dispensation of the
fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both
which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
(11) In whom also we have obtained an
inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all
things after the counsel of his own will: (12) That we should be to the praise of
his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
(13) In whom ye also trusted, after that ye
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that
ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
(14) Which is the earnest of our
inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of
his glory.
(15) Wherefore I also, after I heard of your
faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,
(16) Cease not to give thanks for you,
making mention of you in my prayers;
(17) That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of him:
(18) The eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the
riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
(19) And what is the exceeding
greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his
mighty power,
(20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised
him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
(21) Far above all principality, and
power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
world, but also in that which is to come: (22) And hath put all things under his
feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
(23) Which is his body, the fulness of
him that filleth all in all.
2:1-10 (1) And you hath he
quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; (2) Wherein in time past ye walked
according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of
the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
(3) Among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of
the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as
others.
(4) But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great
love wherewith he loved us, (5)
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by
grace ye are saved;)
(6) And hath raised us up together, and made us
sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: (7) That in the ages to come he might
shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ
Jesus.
(8) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (9) Not of works, lest any man should
boast.
(10) For we are his workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk
in them.
3:1-11 (1) For this cause I Paul,
the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, (2) If ye have heard of the
dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
(3) How that by revelation he made
known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
(4) Whereby, when ye read, ye may
understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) (5) Which in other ages was not made
known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and
prophets by the Spirit;
(6) That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and
of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
(7) Whereof I was made a minister,
according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working
of his power.
(8) Unto me, who am less than the least of all
saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the
unsearchable riches of Christ;
(9) And to make all men see what is the
fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid
in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: (10) To the intent that now unto the
principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the
manifold wisdom of God,
(11) According to the eternal purpose which he
purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
Colossians
1:12-14 (12) Giving thanks unto the
Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints
in light: (13)
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into
the kingdom of his dear Son:
(14) In whom we have redemption through his
blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
II Thessalonians
2:13-14 (13) But we are bound to give
thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from
the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and
belief of the truth:
(14) Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to
the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
II Timothy
1:12 For the which cause I also suffer
these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed,
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him
against that day.
2:10 Therefore I endure all things for
the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ
Jesus with eternal glory.
2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of
God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And,
Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
Hebrews
11:39-40 (39) And these all, having
obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
(40) God having provided some better
thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
12:1-2 (1) Wherefore seeing we also
are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us,
(2) Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of
our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
I Peter
1:2-5 (2) Elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto
obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and
peace, be multiplied.
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto
a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
(4) To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
(5) Who are kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of
your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought
unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
2:4-10 (4) To whom coming, as unto a
living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
(5) Ye also, as lively stones, are
built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (6) Wherefore also it is contained in
the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and
he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. (7) Unto you therefore which believe he
is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders
disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
(8) And a stone of stumbling, and a
rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient:
whereunto also they were appointed.
(9) But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light; (10)
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had
not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
I John
1:7-9 (7) But if we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood
of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (8) If we say that we have no sin, we
deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (9) If we confess our sins, he is
faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
2:19 They went out from us, but they
were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued
with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not
all of us.
3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of
God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Matthew
16:15-19 (15)
He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? (16) And Simon Peter answered and said,
Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (17) And Jesus answered and said unto
him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it
unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. (18) And I say also unto thee, That
thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it.
(19) And I will give unto thee the keys of the
kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in
heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
18:15-20 (15) Moreover if thy brother
shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him
alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
(16) But if he will not hear thee, then
take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established.
(17) And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell
it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee
as an heathen man and a publican.
(18) Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall
bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven.
(19) Again I say unto you, That if two of you
shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done
for them of my Father which is in heaven. (20) For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Acts
2:41-42 (41) Then they that gladly
received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them
about three thousand souls.
(42) And they continued stedfastly in the
apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
2:47 Praising God, and having favour
with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be
saved.
5:11-14 (11) And great fear came upon
all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.
(12) And by the hands of the apostles
were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with
one accord in Solomon's porch.
(13) And of the rest durst no man join himself to
them: but the people magnified them.
(14) And believers were the more added to the
Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)
6:3-6 (3) Wherefore, brethren, look
ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom,
whom we may appoint over this business.
(4) But we will give ourselves continually to
prayer, and to the ministry of the word.
(5) And the saying pleased the whole
multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost,
and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a
proselyte of Antioch:
(6) Whom they set before the apostles: and when
they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
13:1-3 (1) Now there were in the
church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and
Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been
brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. (2) As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the
Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have
called them.
(3) And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid
their hands on them, they sent them away.
14:23 And when they had ordained them
elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the
Lord, on whom they believed.
14:27 And when they were come, and had
gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them,
and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.
15:1-30 (1) And certain men which
came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised
after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. (2) When therefore Paul and Barnabas
had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and
Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles
and elders about this question.
(3) And being brought on their way by the church,
they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the
Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
(4) And when they were come to
Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and
they declared all things that God had done with them.
(5) But there rose up certain of the
sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise
them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
(6) And the apostles and elders came
together for to consider of this matter.
(7) And when there had been much disputing,
Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good
while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear
the word of the gospel, and believe.
(8) And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them
witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
(9) And put no difference between us
and them, purifying their hearts by faith. (10) Now therefore why tempt ye God, to
put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were
able to bear?
(11) But we believe that through the grace of the
LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. (12) Then all the multitude kept
silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and
wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
(13) And after they had held their
peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:
(14) Simeon hath declared how God at
the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
(15) And to this agree the words of the
prophets; as it is written,
(16) After this I will return, and will build
again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the
ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
(17) That the residue of men might seek after the
Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who
doeth all these things.
(18) Known unto God are all his works from the
beginning of the world.
(19) Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble
not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
(20) But that we write unto them, that
they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things
strangled, and from blood.
(21) For Moses of old time hath in every city
them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
(22) Then pleased it the apostles and
elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch
with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and Silas, chief men
among the brethren:
(23) And they wrote letters by them after this
manner; The apostles and elders and brethren send greeting unto the brethren
which are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia.
(24) Forasmuch as we have heard, that
certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your
souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such
commandment:
(25) It seemed good unto us, being assembled with
one accord, to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
(26) Men that have hazarded their lives
for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(27) We have sent therefore Judas and Silas,
who shall also tell you the same things by mouth. (28) For it seemed good to the Holy
Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
(29) That ye abstain from meats offered
to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from
which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
(30) So when they were dismissed, they
came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they
delivered the epistle:
16:5 And so were the churches
established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
20:28 Take heed therefore unto
yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you
overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own
blood.
Romans
1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved
of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
I Corinthians
1:2 Unto the church of God which is
at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints,
with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both
their's and our's:
3:16 Know ye not that ye are the
temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
5:4-5 (4) In the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of
our Lord Jesus Christ, (5) To deliver such
an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved
in the day of the Lord Jesus.
7:17 But as God hath distributed to
every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I
in all churches.
9:13-14 (13)
Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of
the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? (14) Even so
hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the
gospel.
12:1-31 (1) Now concerning spiritual
gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. (2) Ye know that ye were Gentiles,
carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
(3) Wherefore I give you to understand,
that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no
man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
(4) Now there are diversities of gifts,
but the same Spirit.
(5) And there are differences of administrations,
but the same Lord.
(6) And there are diversities of operations, but
it is the same God which worketh all in all. (7) But the manifestation of the Spirit
is given to every man to profit withal.
(8) For to one is given by the Spirit the word
of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
(9) To another faith by the same
Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
(10) To another the working of
miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another
divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
(11) But all these worketh that one and
the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
(12) For as the body is one, and hath
many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so
also is Christ.
(13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into
one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have
been all made to drink into one Spirit.
(14) For the body is not one member, but many.
(15) If the foot shall say, Because I
am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
(16) And if the ear shall say, Because
I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
(17) If the whole body were an eye,
where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
(18) But now hath God set the members
every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
(19) And if they were all one member,
where were the body?
(20) But now are they many members, yet but one
body.
(21) And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the
head to the feet, I have no need of you.
(22) Nay, much more those members of the body,
which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: (23) And those members of the body,
which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour;
and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. (24) For our comely parts have no need:
but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to
that part which lacked.
(25) That there should be no schism in the body;
but that the members should have the same care one for another.
(26) And whether one member suffer, all
the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice
with it.
(27) Now ye are the body of Christ, and members
in particular.
(28) And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then
gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
(29) Are all apostles? are all
prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
(30) Have all the gifts of healing? do
all speak with tongues? do all interpret? (31) But covet earnestly the best
gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Ephesians
1:22-23 (22) And hath put all things
under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
(23) Which is his body, the fulness of
him that filleth all in all.
2:19-22 (19) Now therefore ye are no
more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the
household of God;
(20) And are built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
(21) In whom all the building fitly
framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
(22) In whom ye also are builded
together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
3:8-11 (8) Unto me, who am less than
the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the
Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; (9) And to make all men see what is the
fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid
in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: (10) To the intent that now unto the
principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the
manifold wisdom of God,
(11) According to the eternal purpose which he
purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
3:21 Unto him be glory in the church
by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
5:22-32 (22) Wives, submit yourselves
unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the
wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the
body.
(24) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to
their own husbands in every thing.
(25) Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ
also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (26) That he might sanctify and cleanse
it with the washing of water by the word, (27) That he might present it to
himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but
that it should be holy and without blemish. (28) So ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
(29) For no man ever yet hated his own
flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
(30) For we are members of his body, of
his flesh, and of his bones.
(31) For this cause shall a man leave his father
and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
(32) This is a great mystery: but I
speak concerning Christ and the church.
Philippians
1:1 Paul and Timotheus, the
servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at
Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
Colossians
1:18 And he is the head of the body,
the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all
things he might have the preeminence.
I Timothy
3:1-15 (1) This is a true saying,
If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
(2) A bishop then must be blameless,
the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to
hospitality, apt to teach;
(3) Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of
filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
(4) One that ruleth well his own house,
having his children in subjection with all gravity;
(5) (For if a man know not how to rule
his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
(6) Not a novice, lest being lifted up
with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
(7) Moreover he must have a good report
of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the
devil.
(8) Likewise must the deacons be grave, not
doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
(9) Holding the mystery of the faith in
a pure conscience.
(10) And let these also first be proved; then let
them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
(11) Even so must their wives be grave,
not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (12) Let the deacons be the husbands of
one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
(13) For they that have used the office
of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the
faith which is in Christ Jesus.
(14) These things write I unto thee, hoping to
come unto thee shortly:
(15) But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know
how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of
the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in
thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the
presbytery.
I Peter
5:1-4 (1) The elders which are
among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of
Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
(2) Feed the flock of God which is
among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not
for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
(3) Neither as being lords over God's
heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. (4) And when the chief Shepherd shall
appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Revelation
2:1-29 (1) Unto the angel of the
church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in
his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
(2) I know thy works, and thy labour,
and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast
tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
(3) And hast borne, and hast patience,
and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
(4) Nevertheless I have somewhat
against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
(5) Remember therefore from whence thou
art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee
quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
(6) But this thou hast, that thou
hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
(7) He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to
eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
(8) And unto the angel of the church in
Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is
alive;
(9) I know thy works, and tribulation, and
poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are
Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. (10) Fear none of those things which
thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye
may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto
death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (11) He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of
the second death.
(12) And to the angel of the church in Pergamos
write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
(13) I know thy works, and where thou
dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast
not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr,
who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth. (14) But I have a few things against
thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught
Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things
sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. (15) So hast thou also them that hold
the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
(16) Repent; or else I will come unto
thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
(17) He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to
eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new
name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
(18) And unto the angel of the church
in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like
unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
(19) I know thy works, and charity, and
service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more
than the first.
(20) Notwithstanding I have a few things against
thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a
prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat
things sacrificed unto idols.
(21) And I gave her space to repent of her
fornication; and she repented not.
(22) Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them
that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of
their deeds.
(23) And I will kill her children with death; and
all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts:
and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.
(24) But unto you I say, and unto the
rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known
the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
(25) But that which ye have already
hold fast till I come.
(26) And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works
unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
(27) And he shall rule them with a rod
of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I
received of my Father.
(28) And I will give him the morning star.
(29) He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
3:1-22 (1) And unto the angel of
the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of
God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou
livest, and art dead.
(2) Be watchful, and strengthen the things which
remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before
God.
(3) Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and
repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and
thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
(4) Thou hast a few names even in
Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in
white: for they are worthy.
(5) He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed
in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but
I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
(6) He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
(7) And to the angel of the church in
Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that
hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and
no man openeth;
(8) I know thy works: behold, I have set before
thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and
hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. (9) Behold, I will make them of the
synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I
will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have
loved thee.
(10) Because thou hast kept the word of my
patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come
upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
(11) Behold, I come quickly: hold that
fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. (12) Him that overcometh will I make a
pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write
upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new
Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon
him my new name.
(13) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches.
(14) And unto the angel of the church of the
Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness,
the beginning of the creation of God;
(15) I know thy works, that thou art neither
cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. (16) So then because thou art lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
(17) Because thou sayest, I am rich,
and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou
art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
(18) I counsel thee to buy of me gold
tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest
be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine
eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. (19) As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. (20) Behold, I stand at the door, and
knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and
will sup with him, and he with me.
(21) To him that overcometh will I grant to sit
with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in
his throne.
(22) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches.
21:2-3 (2) And I John saw the holy
city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
(3) And I heard a great voice out of heaven
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their
God.
Matthew
3:13-17 (13) Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto
John, to be baptized of him.
(14) But John forbad him, saying, I have need to
be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? (15) And Jesus answering said unto him,
Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
Then he suffered him.
(16) And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up
straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he
saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
(17) And lo a voice from heaven,
saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
26:26-30 (26) And as they were
eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the
disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. (27) And he took the cup, and gave
thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
(28) For this is my blood of the new
testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
(29) But I say unto you, I will not
drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new
with you in my Father's kingdom.
(30) And when they had sung an hymn, they went
out into the mount of Olives.
28:19-20 (19) Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost:
(20) Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end
of the world. Amen.
Mark
1:9-11 (9) And it came to pass in
those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John
in Jordan.
(10) And straightway coming up out of the water,
he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him:
(11) And there came a voice from
heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
14:22-26 (22) And as they did eat,
Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take,
eat: this is my body. (23) And he took the
cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
(24) And he said unto them, This is my
blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
(25) Verily I say unto you, I will
drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in
the kingdom of God.
(26) And when they had sung an hymn, they went
out into the mount of Olives.
Luke
3:21-22 (21) Now when all the people
were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the
heaven was opened,
(22) And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily
shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art
my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.
22:19-20 (19) And he took bread, and
gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is
given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
(20) Likewise also the cup after supper, saying,
This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
John
3:23 And John also was baptizing in
Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were
baptized.
Acts
2:1-41 (1) And when the day of
Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
(2) And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they
were sitting.
(3) And there appeared unto them cloven tongues
like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. (4) And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance.
(5) And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews,
devout men, out of every nation under heaven. (6) Now when this was noised abroad,
the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard
them speak in his own language.
(7) And they were all amazed and marvelled,
saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
(8) And how hear we every man in our
own tongue, wherein we were born?
(9) Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the
dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
(10) Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt,
and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and
proselytes,
(11) Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak
in our tongues the wonderful works of God. (12) And they were all amazed, and were
in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
(13) Others mocking said, These men are
full of new wine.
(14) But Peter, standing up with the eleven,
lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell
at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
(15) For these are not drunken, as ye
suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
(16) But this is that which was spoken
by the prophet Joel;
(17) And it shall come to pass in the last days,
saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men
shall dream dreams:
(18) And on my servants and on my handmaidens I
will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
(19) And I will shew wonders in heaven
above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
(20) The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord
come:
(21) And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the
Lord shall be saved.
(22) Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of
Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs,
which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
(23) Him, being delivered by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands
have crucified and slain:
(24) Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the
pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
(25) For David speaketh concerning him,
I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I
should not be moved:
(26) Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my
tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
(27) Because thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
(28) Thou hast made known to me the
ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
(29) Men and brethren, let me freely
speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his
sepulchre is with us unto this day.
(30) Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that
God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to
the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
(31) He seeing this before spake of the
resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh
did see corruption.
(32) This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we
all are witnesses.
(33) Therefore being by the right hand of God
exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he
hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. (34) For David is not ascended into the
heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right
hand,
(35) Until I make thy foes thy footstool. (36) Therefore let all the house of
Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have
crucified, both Lord and Christ.
(37) Now when they heard this, they were pricked
in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and
brethren, what shall we do?
(38) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,
and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (39) For the promise is unto you, and
to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God
shall call.
(40) And with many other words did he testify and
exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
(41) Then they that gladly received his
word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three
thousand souls.
(42) And they continued stedfastly in the
apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
8:35-39 (35) Then Philip opened his
mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
(36) And as they went on their way,
they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what
doth hinder me to be baptized?
(37) And Philip said, If thou believest with all
thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God.
(38) And he commanded the chariot to stand still:
and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he
baptized him.
(39)
And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away
Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.
16:30-33 (30) And brought them out, and
said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
(31) And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (32) And they spake unto him the word
of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. (33) And he took them the same hour of
the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his,
straightway.
20:7 And upon the first day of the
week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them,
ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Romans
6:3-5 (3) Know ye not, that so many
of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
(4) Therefore we are buried with him by
baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
(5) For if we have been planted
together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection:
I Corinthians
10:16 The cup of blessing which we
bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break,
is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the
Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of
the table of devils.
11:23-29 (23) For I have received of
the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same
night in which he was betrayed took bread: (24) And when he had given thanks, he
brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do
in remembrance of me.
(25) After the same manner also he took the cup,
when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do
ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. (26) For as often as ye eat this bread,
and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
(27) Wherefore whosoever shall eat this
bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body
and blood of the Lord.
(28) But let a man examine himself, and so let
him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. (29) For he that eateth and drinketh
unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's
body.
Colossians
2:12 Buried with him in baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God,
who hath raised him from the dead.
Exodus
20:8-11 (8)
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. (9) Six days shalt thou labour, and do
all thy work:
(10) But the seventh day is the sabbath of the
LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger
that is within thy gates:
(11) For in six days the LORD made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore
the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Matthew
12:1-12 (1) At that time Jesus went
on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and
began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. (2) But when the Pharisees saw it, they
said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the
sabbath day.
(3) But he said unto them, Have ye not read
what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;
(4) How he entered into the house of
God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for
them which were with him, but only for the priests?
(5) Or have ye not read in the law, how
that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are
blameless?
(6) But I say unto you, That in this place is one
greater than the temple.
(7) But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will
have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
(8) For the Son of man is Lord even of
the sabbath day.
(9) And when he was departed thence, he went into
their synagogue:
(10) And, behold, there was a man which had his
hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath
days? that they might accuse him.
(11) And he said unto them, What man shall there
be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the
sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
(12) How much then is a man better than
a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as
it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the
other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mark
2:27-28 (27) And he said unto them,
The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
(28) Therefore the Son of man is Lord
also of the sabbath.
16:1-7 (1) And when the sabbath was
past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet
spices, that they might come and anoint him. (2) And very early in the morning the
first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
(3) And they said among themselves, Who
shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
(4) And when they looked, they saw that
the stone was rolled away: for it was very great. (5) And entering into the sepulchre,
they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment;
and they were affrighted.
(6) And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye
seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold
the place where they laid him.
(7) But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter
that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto
you.
Luke
24:1-3 (1) Now upon the first day of
the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the
spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
(2) And they found the stone rolled
away from the sepulchre.
(3) And they entered in, and found not the body
of the Lord Jesus.
24:33-36 (33) And they rose up the
same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together,
and them that were with them,
(34) Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath
appeared to Simon.
(35) And they told what things were done in the
way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
(36) And as they thus spake, Jesus
himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
John
4:21-24 (21) Jesus saith unto her,
Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor
yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
(22) Ye worship ye know not what: we know what
we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (23) But the hour cometh, and now is,
when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for
the Father seeketh such to worship him.
(24) God is a Spirit: and they that worship
him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
20:1 The first day of the week
cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth
the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
20:19-28 (19) Then the same day at
evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the
disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the
midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. (20) And when he had so said, he shewed
unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw
the LORD.
(21) Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto
you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
(22) And when he had said this, he
breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
(23) Whose soever sins ye remit, they
are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
(24) But Thomas, one of the twelve,
called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. (25) The other disciples therefore said
unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in
his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails,
and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
(26) And after eight days again his
disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being
shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
(27) Then saith he to Thomas, Reach
hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it
into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. (28) And Thomas answered and said unto
him, My LORD and my God.
Acts
20:7 And upon the first day of the
week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them,
ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
I Corinthians
16:1-2 (1) Now concerning the
collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia,
even so do ye.
(2) Upon the first day of the week let every one
of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no
gatherings when I come.
Colossians
2:16 Let no man therefore judge you
in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the
sabbath days:
3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Revelation
1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's
day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Genesis
1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Isaiah
9:6-7 (6)
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be
upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (7) Of the increase of his government and peace
there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order
it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Jeremiah
23:5-6 (5) Behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King
shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
(6) In his days Judah shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called,
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Matthew
3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand.
4:8-10 (8)
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him
all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
(9) And saith unto him, All these
things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
(10) Then saith Jesus unto him, Get
thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and
him only shalt thou serve.
4:23 And Jesus went about all
Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
12:25-28 (25) And Jesus knew their
thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
(26) And if Satan cast out Satan, he is
divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
(27) And if I by Beelzebub cast out
devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your
judges.
(28) But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of
God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
13:1-52 (1)
The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.
(2) And great multitudes were gathered
together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude
stood on the shore.
(3) And he spake many things unto them in
parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
(4) And when he sowed, some seeds fell
by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
(5) Some fell upon stony places, where
they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no
deepness of earth:
(6) And when the sun was up, they were scorched;
and because they had no root, they withered away. (7) And some fell among thorns; and the
thorns sprung up, and choked them:
(8) But other fell into good ground, and brought
forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
(9) Who hath ears to hear, let him
hear.
(10) And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in
parables?
(11) He answered and said unto them, Because it
is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it
is not given.
(12) For whosoever hath, to him shall be given,
and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be
taken away even that he hath.
(13) Therefore speak I to them in parables:
because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they
understand.
(14) And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of
Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and
seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: (15) For this people's heart is waxed
gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest
at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
(16) But blessed are your eyes, for
they see: and your ears, for they hear.
(17) For verily I say unto you, That many
prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and
have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard
them.
(18) Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. (19) When any one heareth the word of
the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth
away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way
side.
(20) But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that
heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; (21) Yet hath he not root in himself,
but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of
the word, by and by he is offended.
(22) He also that received seed among the thorns
is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness
of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
(23) But he that received seed into the
good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also
beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
(24) Another parable put he forth unto
them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed
in his field:
(25) But while men slept, his enemy came and
sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. (26) But when the blade was sprung up,
and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
(27) So the servants of the householder
came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from
whence then hath it tares?
(28) He said unto them, An enemy hath done this.
The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
(29) But he said, Nay; lest while ye
gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
(30) Let both grow together until the
harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye
together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the
wheat into my barn.
(31) Another parable put he forth unto them,
saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man
took, and sowed in his field:
(32) Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but
when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that
the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
(33) Another parable spake he unto
them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in
three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
(34) All these things spake Jesus unto
the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
(35) That it might be fulfilled which
was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will
utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
(36) Then Jesus sent the multitude
away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare
unto us the parable of the tares of the field. (37) He answered and said unto them, He
that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; (38) The field is the world; the good
seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the
wicked one;
(39) The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the
harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
(40) As therefore the tares are
gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
(41) The Son of man shall send forth
his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and
them which do iniquity;
(42) And shall cast them into a furnace of fire:
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (43) Then shall the righteous shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him
hear.
(44) Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the
which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth
all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
(45) Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto
a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
(46) Who, when he had found one pearl of great
price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
(47) Again, the kingdom of heaven is
like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
(48) Which, when it was full, they drew
to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad
away.
(49) So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and
sever the wicked from among the just,
(50) And shall cast them into the furnace of
fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
(51) Jesus saith unto them, Have ye
understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
(52) Then said he unto them, Therefore
every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man
that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and
old.
25:31-46 (31) When the Son of man shall
come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the
throne of his glory:
(32) And before him shall be gathered all
nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his
sheep from the goats:
(33) And he shall set the sheep on his right
hand, but the goats on the left.
(34) Then shall the King say unto them on his
right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world:
(35) For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I
was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
(36) Naked, and ye clothed me: I was
sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
(37) Then shall the righteous answer
him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and
gave thee drink? (38) When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee
in? or naked, and clothed thee?
(39) Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison,
and came unto thee?
(40) And the King shall answer and say unto them,
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of
these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. (41) Then shall he say also unto them
on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for
the devil and his angels:
(42) For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no
meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: (43) I was a stranger, and ye took me
not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me
not.
(44) Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred,
or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister
unto thee?
(45) Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I
say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it
not to me.
(46) And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
26:29 But I say unto you, I will not
drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new
with you in my Father's kingdom.
Mark
1:14-15 (14) Now after that John was
put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of
God,
(15) And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand:
repent ye, and believe the gospel.
9:1 And he said unto them, Verily I
say unto you, That there be some of them that stand here, which shall not taste
of death, till they have seen the kingdom of God come with power.
Luke
4:43 And he said unto them, I must
preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.
8:1 And it came to pass afterward,
that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad
tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
9:2 And he sent them to preach the
kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.
12:31-32 (31) But rather seek ye the
kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.
(32) Fear not, little flock; for it is
your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
17:21-22 (21) Neither shall they say,
Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
(22) And he said unto the disciples,
The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of
man, and ye shall not see it.
23:42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord,
remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
John
3:3 Jesus answered and said unto
him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see
the kingdom of God.
18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is
not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants
fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not
from hence.
Acts
1:6-7 (6) When they therefore were
come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore
again the kingdom to Israel?
(7) And he said unto them, It is not for you to
know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
17:22-31 (22) Then Paul stood in the
midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things
ye are too superstitious.
(23) For as I passed by, and beheld your
devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom
therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
(24) God that made the world and all
things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in
temples made with hands;
(25) Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as
though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all
things;
(26) And hath made of one blood all nations of
men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times
before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
(27) That they should seek the Lord, if
haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every
one of us:
(28) For in him we live, and move, and have our
being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his
offspring.
(29) Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of
God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or
stone, graven by art and man's device.
(30) And the times of this ignorance God
winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
(31) Because he hath appointed a day,
in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath
ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised
him from the dead.
Romans
5:17 For if by one man's offence death
reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
8:19 For the earnest expectation of the
creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
I Corinthians
15:24-28 (24) Then cometh the end,
when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he
shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
(25) For he must reign, till he hath
put all enemies under his feet.
(26) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
(27) For he hath put all things under
his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he
is excepted, which did put all things under him. (28) And when all things shall be
subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put
all things under him, that God may be all in all.
Colossians
1:13 Who hath delivered us from the
power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
Hebrews
11:10 For he looked for a city which
hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11:16 But now they desire a better
country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their
God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
12:28 Wherefore we receiving a
kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God
acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
I Peter
2:4-10 (4) To whom coming, as unto
a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
(5) Ye also, as lively stones, are
built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (6) Wherefore also it is contained in
the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and
he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. (7) Unto you therefore which believe he
is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders
disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
(8) And a stone of stumbling, and a
rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient:
whereunto also they were appointed.
(9) But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
(10) Which in time past were not a
people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now
have obtained mercy.
4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are
partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may
be glad also with exceeding joy.
Revelation
1:6 And hath made us kings and
priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.
1:9 I John, who also am your
brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus
Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
5:10 And hast made us unto our God
kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
11:15 And the seventh angel sounded;
and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever
and ever.
21:1-27 (1) And I saw a new heaven
and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and
there was no more sea.
(2) And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
(3) And I heard a great voice out of
heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be
their God.
(4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
(5) And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words
are true and faithful.
(6) And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of
the fountain of the water of life freely. (7) He that overcometh shall inherit
all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
(8) But the fearful, and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and
idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with
fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (9) And there came unto me one of the
seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and
talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's
wife.
(10) And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and
shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from
God,
(11) Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious,
even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; (12) And had a wall great and high, and
had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon,
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
(13) On the east three gates; on the
north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
(14) And the wall of the city had
twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
(15) And he that talked with me had a
golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
(16) And the city lieth foursquare, and the
length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed,
twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are
equal.
(17) And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred
and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the
angel.
(18) And the building of the wall of it was of
jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
(19) And the foundations of the wall of
the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation
was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an
emerald;
(20) The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the
seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a
chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
(21) And the twelve gates were twelve
pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure
gold, as it were transparent glass.
(22) And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord
God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
(23) And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it:
for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
(24) And the nations of them which are
saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their
glory and honour into it.
(25) And the gates of it shall not be shut at all
by day: for there shall be no night there. (26) And they shall bring the glory and
honour of the nations into it.
(27) And there shall in no wise enter into it any
thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie:
but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
22:1-21 (1) And he shewed me a pure
river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb.
(2) In the midst of the street of it, and on
either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner
of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations.
(3) And there shall be no more curse: but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
(4) And they shall see his face; and
his name shall be in their foreheads.
(5) And there shall be no night there; and
they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them
light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. (6) And he said unto me, These sayings
are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to
shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
(7) Behold, I come quickly: blessed is
he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
(8) And I John saw these things, and
heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the
feet of the angel which shewed me these things. (9) Then saith he unto me, See thou do
it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of
them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
(10) And he saith unto me, Seal not the
sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
(11) He that is unjust, let him be
unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is
righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy
still.
(12) And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward
is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
(13) I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end, the first and the last. (14) Blessed are they that do his
commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in
through the gates into the city.
(15) For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and
whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a
lie.
(16) I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the
churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning
star.
(17) And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of
life freely.
(18) For I testify unto every man that heareth
the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things,
God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
(19) And if any man shall take away
from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of
the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are
written in this book.
(20) He which testifieth these things saith,
Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
(21) The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen.
Isaiah
2:4 And he shall judge among the
nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy
in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Matthew
16:27 For the Son of man shall come in
the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man
according to his works.
18:8-9 (8) Wherefore if thy hand or
thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for
thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet
to be cast into everlasting fire.
(9) And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out,
and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye,
rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
19:28 And Jesus said unto them, Verily
I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son
of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
24:27 For as the lightning cometh out
of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son
of man be.
24:30 And then shall appear the sign
of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn,
and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory.
24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth
no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
24:44 Therefore be ye also ready: for
in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
25:31-46 (31) When the Son of man
shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit
upon the throne of his glory:
(32) And before him shall be gathered all
nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his
sheep from the goats:
(33) And he shall set the sheep on his right
hand, but the goats on the left.
(34) Then shall the King say unto them on his
right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world:
(35) For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I
was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
(36) Naked, and ye clothed me: I was
sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
(37) Then shall the righteous answer
him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and
gave thee drink?
(38) When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee
in? or naked, and clothed thee?
(39) Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and
came unto thee?
(40) And the King shall answer and say unto them,
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of
these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. (41) Then shall he say also unto them
on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for
the devil and his angels:
(42) For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no
meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: (43) I was a stranger, and ye took me
not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me
not.
(44) Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred,
or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister
unto thee?
(45) Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I
say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it
not to me.
(46) And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
26:64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast
said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting
on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Mark
8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be
ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him
also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father
with the holy angels.
9:34-48 (34) But they held their
peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the
greatest.
(35) And he sat down, and called the twelve, and
saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all,
and servant of all.
(36) And he took a child, and set him in the
midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,
(37) Whosoever shall receive one of
such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me,
receiveth not me, but him that sent me.
(38) And John answered him, saying, Master, we
saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad
him, because he followeth not us.
(39) But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is
no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.
(40) For he that is not against us is
on our part.
(41) For whosoever shall give you a cup of water
to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he
shall not lose his reward.
(42) And whosoever shall offend one of these
little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were
hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
(43) And if thy hand offend thee, cut
it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands
to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
(44) Where their worm dieth not, and
the fire is not quenched.
(45) And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it
is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into
hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: (46) Where their worm dieth not, and
the fire is not quenched.
(47) And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out:
it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having
two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
(48) Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is
not quenched.
Luke
12:40 Be ye therefore ready also: for
the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
12:48 But he that knew not, and did
commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto
whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have
committed much, of him they will ask the more.
16:19-26 (19) There was a certain
rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously
every day:
(20) And there was a certain beggar named
Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
(21) And desiring to be fed with the
crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked
his sores.
(22) And it came to pass, that the beggar died,
and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and
was buried;
(23) And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in
torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
(24) And he cried and said, Father
Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his
finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
(25) But Abraham said, Son, remember
that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil
things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
(26) And beside all this, between us
and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to
you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
17:22-37 (22) And he said unto the
disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of
the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.
(23) And they shall say to you, See here; or,
see there: go not after them, nor follow them. (24) For as the lightning, that
lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under
heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
(25) But first must he suffer many
things, and be rejected of this generation. (26) And as it was in the days of Noe,
so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. (27) They did eat, they drank, they
married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into
the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
(28) Likewise also as it was in the
days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted,
they builded;
(29) But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom
it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
(30) Even thus shall it be in the day
when the Son of man is revealed.
(31) In that day, he which shall be upon the
housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and
he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
(32) Remember Lot's wife.
(33) Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall
lose his life shall preserve it.
(34)
I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be
taken, and the other shall be left. (35) Two women shall be grinding
together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(36) Two men shall be in the field; the
one shall be taken, and the other left.
(37) And they answered and said unto him,
Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the
eagles be gathered together.
21:27-28 (27) And then shall they see
the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
(28) And when these things begin to
come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth
nigh.
John
14:1-3 (1) Let not your heart be
troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. (2) In my Father's house are many
mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for
you.
(3) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you
unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Acts
1:11 Which also said, Ye men of
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up
from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into
heaven.
17:31 Because he hath appointed a day,
in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath
ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised
him from the dead.
Romans
14:10 But why dost thou judge thy
brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand
before the judgment seat of Christ.
I Corinthians
4:5 Therefore judge nothing before
the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of
darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall
every man have praise of God.
15:24-28 (24) Then cometh the end,
when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he
shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
(25) For he must reign, till he hath
put all enemies under his feet.
(26) The last enemy that shall be destroyed is
death.
(27) For he hath put all things under his feet.
But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is
excepted, which did put all things under him. (28) And when all things shall be
subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put
all things under him, that God may be all in all.
15:35- 38 (35) But some man will say,
How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
(36) Thou fool, that which thou sowest
is not quickened, except it die:
(37) And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not
that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some
other grain:
(38) But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased
him, and to every seed his own body.
II
Corinthians
5:10 For we must all appear before
the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his
body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Philippians
3:20-21 (20) For our conversation is
in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
(21) Who shall change our vile body, that it may
be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is
able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Colossians
1:5 For the hope which is laid up
for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the
gospel;
3:4 When Christ, who is our life,
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
I
Thessalonians
4:14-18 (14) For if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring
with him.
(15) For this we say unto you by the word of the
Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep.
(16) For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
(17) Then we which are alive and remain shall
be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and
so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(18) Wherefore comfort one another with these
words.
5:1 But of the times and the
seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
II
Thessalonians
1:7 And to you who are troubled
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels,
2:1-17 (1) Now we beseech you,
brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together
unto him,
(2) That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be
troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the
day of Christ is at hand.
(3) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that
day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin
be revealed, the son of perdition;
(4) Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the
temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (5) Remember ye not, that, when I was
yet with you, I told you these things?
(6) And now ye know what withholdeth that he
might be revealed in his time.
(7) For the mystery of iniquity doth already
work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
(8) And then shall that Wicked be
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall
destroy with the brightness of his coming: (9) Even him, whose coming is after the
working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
(10) And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved.
(11) And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: (12) That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
(13) But we are bound to give thanks
alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the
beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and
belief of the truth:
(14) Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to
the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(15) Therefore, brethren, stand fast,
and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our
epistle.
(16) Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God,
even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation
and good hope through grace,
(17) Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in
every good word and work.
I Timothy
6:14 That thou keep this commandment
without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
II Timothy
4:1 I charge thee therefore before
God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his
appearing and his kingdom;
4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for
me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me
at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Titus
2:13 Looking for that blessed hope,
and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Hebrews
9:27-28 (27) And as it is appointed
unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (28) So Christ was once offered to bear
the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second
time without sin unto salvation.
James
5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish
your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
II Peter
3:7 But the heavens and the earth,
which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against
the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
I John
2:28 And now, little children, abide
in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed
before him at his coming.
3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of
God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Jude
1:14 And Enoch also, the seventh
from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten
thousands of his saints,
Revelation
1:18 I am he that liveth, and was
dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and
of death.
3:11 Behold, I come quickly: hold
that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
20:1-15 (1) And I saw an angel come
down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his
hand.
(2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and
Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
(3) And cast him into the bottomless pit, and
shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no
more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be
loosed a little season.
(4) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them,
and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their
foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand
years.
(5) But the rest of the dead lived not again
until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
(6) Blessed and holy is he that hath
part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they
shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand
years.
(7) And when the thousand years are expired,
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
(8) And shall go out to deceive the nations
which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them
together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
(9) And they went up on the breadth of
the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and
fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
(10) And the devil that deceived them
was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false
prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
(11) And I saw a great white throne,
and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and
there was found no place for them.
(12) And I saw the dead, small and great, stand
before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the
book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books, according to their works.
(13) And the sea gave up the dead which were in
it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were
judged every man according to their works. (14) And death and hell were cast into
the lake of fire. This is the second death. (15) And whosoever was not found
written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
21:1-27 (1) And I saw a new heaven
and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and
there was no more sea.
(2) And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
(3) And I heard a great voice out of
heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be
their God.
(4) And God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
(5) And he that sat upon the throne
said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words
are true and faithful.
(6) And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of
the fountain of the water of life freely. (7) He that overcometh shall inherit
all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
(8) But the fearful, and unbelieving,
and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and
idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with
fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (9) And there came unto me one of the
seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and
talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's
wife.
(10) And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and
shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from
God,
(11) Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious,
even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; (12) And had a wall great and high, and
had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon,
which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
(13) On the east three gates; on the
north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
(14) And the wall of the city had
twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
(15) And he that talked with me had a
golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.
(16) And the city lieth foursquare, and
the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed,
twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are
equal.
(17) And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred
and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the
angel.
(18) And the building of the wall of it was of
jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
(19) And the foundations of the wall of
the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation
was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an
emerald;
(20) The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the
seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a
chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
(21) And the twelve gates were twelve
pearls: every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure
gold, as it were transparent glass.
(22) And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord
God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. (23) And the city had no need of the
sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it,
and the Lamb is the light thereof.
(24) And the nations of them which are saved
shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory
and honour into it.
(25) And the gates of it shall not be shut at all
by day: for there shall be no night there. (26) And they shall bring the glory and
honour of the nations into it.
(27) And there shall in no wise enter into it any
thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie:
but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
22:1-13 (1) And he shewed me a pure
river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God
and of the Lamb.
(2) In the midst of the street of it, and on
either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner
of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations.
(3) And there shall be no more curse: but the
throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
(4) And they shall see his face; and
his name shall be in their foreheads.
(5) And there shall be no night there; and
they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them
light: and they shall reign for ever and ever. (6) And he said unto me, These sayings
are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to
shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
(7) Behold, I come quickly: blessed is
he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
(8) And I John saw these things, and
heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the
feet of the angel which shewed me these things. (9) Then saith he unto me, See thou do
it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of
them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
(10) And he saith unto me, Seal not the
sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
(11) He that is unjust, let him be
unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is
righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy
still.
(12) And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward
is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
(13) I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Genesis
12:1-3 (1) Now the LORD had said
unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: (2) And I will make of thee a great
nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a
blessing:
(3) And I will bless them that bless thee, and
curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be
blessed.
Exodus
19:5-6 (5) Now therefore, if ye will
obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure
unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
(6) And ye shall be unto me a kingdom
of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto
the children of Israel.
Isaiah
6:1-8 (1) In the year that king
Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and
his train filled the temple.
(2) Above it stood the seraphims: each one had
six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet,
and with twain he did fly.
(3) And one cried unto another, and said, Holy,
holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
(4) And the posts of the door moved at
the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
(5) Then said I, Woe is me! for I am
undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people
of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
(6) Then flew one of the seraphims unto
me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off
the altar:
(7) And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo,
this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin
purged.
(8) Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Matthew
9:37-38 (37) Then saith he unto his
disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;
(38) Pray ye therefore the Lord of the
harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
10:5-15 (5) These twelve Jesus sent
forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into
any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
(6) But go rather to the lost sheep of the
house of Israel.
(7) And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
(8) Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the
dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
(9) Provide neither gold, nor silver,
nor brass in your purses,
(10) Nor scrip for your journey, neither two
coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
(11) And into whatsoever city or town
ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
(12) And when ye come into an house,
salute it.
(13) And if the house be worthy, let your peace
come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
(14) And whosoever shall not receive
you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off
the dust of your feet.
(15) Verily I say unto you, It shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for
that city.
13:18-30 (18) Hear ye therefore the
parable of the sower.
(19) When any one heareth the word of the
kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away
that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way
side.
(20) But he that received the seed into
stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth
it;
(21) Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when
tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is
offended.
(22) He also that received seed among the thorns
is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness
of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
(23) But he that received seed into the
good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also
beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
(24) Another parable put he forth unto
them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed
in his field:
(25) But while men slept, his enemy came and
sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. (26) But when the blade was sprung up,
and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
(27) So the servants of the householder
came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from
whence then hath it tares?
(28) He said unto them, An enemy hath done this.
The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
(29) But he said, Nay; lest while ye
gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
(30) Let both grow together until the
harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye
together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the
wheat into my barn.
13:37-43 (37) He answered and said
unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
(38) The field is the world; the good
seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the
wicked one;
(39) The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the
harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
(40) As therefore the tares are
gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
(41) The Son of man shall send forth
his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and
them which do iniquity;
(42) And shall cast them into a furnace of fire:
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. (43) Then shall the righteous shine
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him
hear.
16:19 And I will give unto thee the
keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in
heaven.
22:9-10 (9) Go ye therefore into the
highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.
(10) So those servants went out into
the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and
good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom
shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then
shall the end come.
28:18-20 (18) And Jesus came and
spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
(19) Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost:
(20) Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end
of the world. Amen.
Luke
10:1-18 (1) After these things the
LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face
into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
(2) Therefore said he unto them, The
harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
(3) Go your ways: behold, I send you
forth as lambs among wolves.
(4) Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes:
and salute no man by the way.
(5) And into whatsoever house ye enter, first
say, Peace be to this house.
(6) And if the son of peace be there, your peace
shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
(7) And in the same house remain,
eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his
hire. Go not from house to house.
(8) And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they
receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
(9) And heal the sick that are therein,
and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
(10) But into whatsoever city ye enter,
and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and
say,
(11) Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off
against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come
nigh unto you.
(12) But I say unto you, that it shall be more
tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
(13) Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto
thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which
have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth
and ashes.
(14) But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and
Sidon at the judgment, than for you.
(15) And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to
heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
(16) He that heareth you heareth me; and he
that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that
sent me.
(17) And the seventy returned again with joy,
saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
(18) And he said unto them, I beheld
Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
24:46-53 (46) And said unto them,
Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the
dead the third day:
(47) And that repentance and remission of sins
should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
(48) And ye are witnesses of these
things.
(49) And, behold, I send the promise of my Father
upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power
from on high.
(50) And he led them out as far as to Bethany,
and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. (51) And it came to pass, while he
blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
(52) And they worshipped him, and
returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
(53) And were continually in the temple,
praising and blessing God. Amen.
John
14:11-12 (11) Believe me that I am in
the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
(12) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He
that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works
than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
15:7-8 (7) If ye abide in me, and my
words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
(8) Herein is my Father glorified, that
ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I
have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and
that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my
name, he may give it you.
17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
20:21 Then said Jesus to them again,
Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
Acts
1:8 But ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me
both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost
part of the earth.
2:1-47 (1) And when the day of
Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
(2) And suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they
were sitting.
(3) And there appeared unto them cloven tongues
like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. (4) And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance.
(5) And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews,
devout men, out of every nation under heaven. (6) Now when this was noised abroad,
the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard
them speak in his own language.
(7) And they were all amazed and marvelled,
saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
(8) And how hear we every man in our
own tongue, wherein we were born?
(9) Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the
dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
(10) Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt,
and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and
proselytes,
(11) Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak
in our tongues the wonderful works of God. (12) And they were all amazed, and were
in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
(13) Others mocking said, These men are
full of new wine.
(14) But Peter, standing up with the eleven,
lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell
at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
(15) For these are not drunken, as ye
suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
(16) But this is that which was spoken
by the prophet Joel;
(17) And it shall come to pass in the last days,
saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men
shall dream dreams:
(18) And on my servants and on my handmaidens I
will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
(19) And I will shew wonders in heaven
above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
(20) The sun shall be turned into
darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and notable day of the Lord
come:
(21) And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the
Lord shall be saved.
(22) Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of
Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs,
which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
(23) Him, being delivered by the
determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands
have crucified and slain:
(24) Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the
pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
(25) For David speaketh concerning him,
I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I
should not be moved:
(26) Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my
tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
(27) Because thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
(28) Thou hast made known to me the
ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
(29) Men and brethren, let me freely
speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his
sepulchre is with us unto this day.
(30) Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that
God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to
the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
(31) He seeing this before spake of the
resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh
did see corruption.
(32) This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we
all are witnesses.
(33) Therefore being by the right hand of God
exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he
hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. (34) For David is not ascended into the
heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right
hand,
(35) Until I make thy foes thy footstool. (36) Therefore let all the house of
Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus, whom ye have
crucified, both Lord and Christ.
(37) Now when they heard this, they were pricked
in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and
brethren, what shall we do?
(38) Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,
and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (39) For the promise is unto you, and
to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God
shall call.
(40) And with many other words did he testify and
exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
(41) Then they that gladly received his
word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three
thousand souls.
(42) And they continued stedfastly in the
apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
(43) And fear came upon every soul: and
many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. (44) And all that believed were
together, and had all things common;
(45) And sold their possessions and goods, and
parted them to all men, as every man had need. (46) And they, continuing daily with
one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their
meat with gladness and singleness of heart, (47) Praising God, and having favour
with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be
saved.
8:26-40 (26) And the angel of the
Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that
goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.
(27) And he arose and went: and,
behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of
the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to
Jerusalem for to worship,
(28) Was returning, and sitting in his chariot
read Esaias the prophet.
(29) Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near,
and join thyself to this chariot.
(30) And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him
read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
(31) And he said, How can I, except
some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit
with him.
(32) The place of the scripture which he read was
this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his
shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
(33) In his humiliation his judgment was taken
away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the
earth.
(34) And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I
pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?
(35) Then Philip opened his mouth, and
began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
(36) And as they went on their way,
they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what
doth hinder me to be baptized?
(37) And Philip said, If thou believest with all
thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ
is the Son of God.
(38) And he commanded the chariot to stand still:
and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he
baptized him.
(39) And when they were come up out of the water,
the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and
he went on his way rejoicing.
(40) But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing
through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
10:42-48 (42) And he commanded us to
preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God
to be the Judge of quick and dead.
(43) To him give all the prophets witness, that
through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
(44) While Peter yet spake these words,
the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
(45) And they of the circumcision which
believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the
Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
(46) For they heard them speak with
tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, (47) Can any man forbid water, that
these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
(48) And he commanded them to be
baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
13:2-3 (2) As they ministered to the
Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the
work whereunto I have called them.
(3) And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid
their hands on them, they sent them away.
Romans
10:13-15 (13) For whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. (14) How then shall they call on him in
whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have
not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
(15) And how shall they preach, except
they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach
the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Ephesians
3:1-11 (1) For this cause I Paul,
the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, (2) If ye have heard of the
dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
(3) How that by revelation he made
known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
(4) Whereby, when ye read, ye may
understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) (5) Which in other ages was not made
known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and
prophets by the Spirit;
(6) That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and
of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
(7) Whereof I was made a minister,
according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working
of his power.
(8) Unto me, who am less than the least of all
saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the
unsearchable riches of Christ;
(9) And to make all men see what is the
fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid
in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: (10) To the intent that now unto the
principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the
manifold wisdom of God,
(11) According to the eternal purpose which he
purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
I Thessalonians
1:8 For from you sounded out the
word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your
faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
II Timothy
4:5 But watch thou in all things,
endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy
ministry.
Hebrews
2:1-3 (1) Therefore we ought to
give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time
we should let them slip.
(2) For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast,
and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
(3) How shall we escape, if we neglect
so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was
confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
11:39-40 (39) And these all, having
obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
(40) God having provided some better
thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.
12:1-2 (1) Wherefore seeing we also
are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us,
(2) Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of
our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
I Peter
2:4-10 (4) To whom coming, as unto
a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
(5 ) Ye also, as lively stones, are
built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (6) Wherefore also it is contained in
the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and
he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. (7) Unto you therefore which believe he
is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders
disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
(8) And a stone of stumbling, and a
rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient:
whereunto also they were appointed.
(9) But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
(10)Which in time past were not a
people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now
have obtained mercy.
Revelation
22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say,
Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the
water of life freely.
Deuteronomy
4:1 Now therefore hearken, O
Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do
them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of
your fathers giveth you.
4:5 Behold, I have taught you
statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do
so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and
keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have
seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach
them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
4:14 And the LORD commanded me at
that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land
whither ye go over to possess it.
6:1-10 (1) Now these are the
commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded
to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
(2) That thou mightest fear the LORD
thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee,
thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy
days may be prolonged.
(3) Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do
it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the
LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk
and honey.
(4) Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
(5) And thou shalt love the LORD thy
God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
(6) And these words, which I command
thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
(7) And thou shalt teach them diligently unto
thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when
thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
(8) And thou shalt bind them for a sign
upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
(9) And thou shalt write them upon the
posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
(10) And it shall be, when the LORD thy God
shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which
thou buildedst not,
31:12-13 (12) Gather the people
together, men and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy
gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God,
and observe to do all the words of this law: (13) And that their children, which
have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long
as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Nehemiah
8:1-8 (1) And all the people
gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the
water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of
Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. (2) And Ezra the priest brought the law
before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with
understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
(3) And he read therein before the
street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the
men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the
people were attentive unto the book of the law. (4) And Ezra the scribe stood upon a
pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood
Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his
right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum,
and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. (5) And Ezra opened the book in the
sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened
it, all the people stood up:
(6) And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And
all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed
their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
(7) Also Jeshua, and Bani, and
Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad,
Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and
the people stood in their place.
(8) So they read in the book in the law of God
distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Job
28:28 And unto man he said, Behold,
the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalm
19:7 The law of the LORD is
perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the
simple.
119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine
heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Proverbs
3:13 Happy is the man that findeth
wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
4:1-10 (1) Hear, ye children, the
instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
(2) For I give you good doctrine,
forsake ye not my law.
(3) For I was my father's son, tender and only
beloved in the sight of my mother.
(4) He taught me also, and said unto me, Let
thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
(5) Get wisdom, get understanding:
forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
(6) Forsake her not, and she shall
preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. (7) Wisdom is the principal thing;
therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
(8) Exalt her, and she shall promote
thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
(9) She shall give to thine head an
ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
(10) Hear, O my son, and receive my
sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
8:1-7 (1) Doth not wisdom cry? and
understanding put forth her voice?
(2) She standeth in the top of high places, by
the way in the places of the paths.
(3) She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the
city, at the coming in at the doors.
(4) Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to
the sons of man.
(5) O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye
fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
(6) Hear; for I will speak of excellent
things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
(7) For my mouth shall speak truth; and
wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8:11 For wisdom is better than
rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
15:14 The heart of him that hath
understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Ecclesiastes
7:19 Wisdom strengtheneth the wise
more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
Matthew
5:2 And he opened his mouth, and
taught them, saying,
7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth
these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which
built his house upon a rock:
28:19-20 (19) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
(20) Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto
the end of the world. Amen.
Luke
2:40 And the child grew, and waxed
strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
Corinthians
1:18-31 (18) For the preaching of
the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is
the power of God.
(19) For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom
of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
(20) Where is the wise? where is the
scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the
wisdom of this wo(rld?
(21) For after that in the wisdom of God the
world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to
save them that believe.
(22) For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks
seek after wisdom:
(23) But we preach Christ crucified, unto the
Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
(24) But unto them which are called,
both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
(25) Because the foolishness of God is
wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
(26) For ye see your calling, brethren,
how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are
called:
(27) But God hath chosen the foolish things of
the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things which are mighty;
(28) And base things of the world, and things
which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to
nought things that are:
(29) That no flesh should glory in his presence.
(30) But of him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
redemption:
(31) That, according as it is written, He that
glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
Ephesians
4:11-16 (11) And he gave some,
apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and
teachers;
(12) For the perfecting of the saints, for the
work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
(13) Till we all come in the unity of
the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: (14) That we henceforth be no more
children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by
the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
(15) But speaking the truth in love,
may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
(16) From whom the whole body fitly
joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to
the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body
unto the edifying of itself in love.
Philippians
4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are
of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on
these things.
Colossians
2:3 In whom are hid all the
treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
2:8-9 (8) Beware lest any man spoil
you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (9) For in him dwelleth all the fulness
of the Godhead bodily.
I Timothy
1:3-7 (3) As I besought thee to
abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge
some that they teach no other doctrine,
(4) Neither give heed to fables and endless
genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in
faith: so do.
(5) Now the end of the commandment is charity out
of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
(6) From which some having swerved have
turned aside unto vain jangling;
(7) Desiring to be teachers of the law;
understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
II Timothy
2:15 Study to shew thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth.
3:14-17 (14) But continue thou in the
things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou
hast learned them;
(15) And that from a child thou hast known the
holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith
which is in Christ Jesus.
(16) All scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness:
(17) That the man of God may be perfect,
throughly furnished unto all good works.
Hebrews
5:12-14 (12) For when for the time ye
ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first
principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and
not of strong meat.
(13) For every one that useth milk is unskilful
in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. (14) But strong meat belongeth to them
that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil.
6:1-3 (1) Therefore leaving the
principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying
again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
(2) Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of
laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
(3) And this will we do, if God permit.
James
1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let
him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it
shall be given him.
3:17 But the wisdom that is from
above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of
mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Genesis
14:20 And blessed be the most high
God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of
all.
Leviticus
27:30-32 (30) And all the tithe of
the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the
LORD's: it is holy unto the LORD.
(31) And if a man will at all redeem ought of his
tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.
(32) And concerning the tithe of the
herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall
be holy unto the LORD.
Deuteronomy
8:18 But thou shalt remember the
LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may
establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Malachi
3:8-12 (8) Will a man rob God? Yet
ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and
offerings.
(9) Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have
robbed me, even this whole nation.
(10) Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,
that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD
of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a
blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
(11) And I will rebuke the devourer for
your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall
your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
(12) And all nations shall call you
blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
Matthew
6:1-4 (1) Take heed that ye do not
your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your
Father which is in heaven.
(2) Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not
sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their
reward.
(3) But when thou doest alms, let not thy left
hand know what thy right hand doeth:
(4) That thine alms may be in secret: and thy
Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
6:19-21 (19) Lay not up for
yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where
thieves break through and steal:
(20) But lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break
through nor steal:
(21) For where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also.
23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have
omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these
ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
25:14-29 (14) For the kingdom of
heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants,
and delivered unto them his goods.
(15) And unto one he gave five talents, to
another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability;
and straightway took his journey.
(16) Then he that had received the five talents
went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
(17) And likewise he that had received
two, he also gained other two.
(18) But he that had received one went and digged
in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
(19) After a long time the lord of those
servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. (20) And so he that had received five
talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto
me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
(21) His lord said unto him, Well done,
thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I
will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
(22) He also that had received two
talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I
have gained two other talents beside them. (23) His lord said unto him, Well done,
good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will
make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
(24) Then he which had received the one
talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where
thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
(25) And I was afraid, and went and hid
thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
(26) His lord answered and said unto
him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed
not, and gather where I have not strawed: (27) Thou oughtest therefore to have
put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received
mine own with usury.
(28) Take therefore the talent from him, and give
it unto him which hath ten talents.
(29) For unto every one that hath shall be given,
and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even
that which he hath.
Luke
12:16-21 (16) And he spake a parable
unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
(17) And he thought within himself,
saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
(18) And he said, This will I do: I
will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my
fruits and my goods.
(19) And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast
much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
(20) But God said unto him, Thou fool,
this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be,
which thou hast provided?
(21) So is he that layeth up treasure for
himself, and is not rich toward God.
12:42 And the Lord said, Who then is
that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his
household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
16:1-13 (1) And he said also unto
his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same
was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. (2) And he called him, and said unto
him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for
thou mayest be no longer steward.
(3) Then the steward said within himself, What
shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to
beg I am ashamed.
(4) I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put
out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
(5) So he called every one of his
lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my
lord?
(6) And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy
bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. (7) Then said he to another, And how much owest
thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy
bill, and write fourscore.
(8) And the lord commended the unjust steward,
because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their
generation wiser than the children of light. (9) And I say unto you, Make to
yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they
may receive you into everlasting habitations. (10) He that is faithful in that which
is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust
also in much.
(11) If therefore ye have not been faithful in
the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
(12) And if ye have not been faithful
in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
(13) No servant can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Acts
2:44-47 (44) And all that believed
were together, and had all things common; (45) And sold their possessions and
goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
(46) And they, continuing daily with
one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their
meat with gladness and singleness of heart, (47) Praising God, and having favour
with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be
saved.
5:1-11 (1) But a certain man named
Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
(2) And kept back part of the price,
his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the
apostles' feet.
(3) But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan
filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price
of the land?
(4) Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and
after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this
thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
(5) And Ananias hearing these words
fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard
these things.
(6) And the young men arose, wound him up, and
carried him out, and buried him.
(7) And it was about the space of three hours
after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
(8) And Peter answered unto her, Tell
me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
(9) Then Peter said unto her, How is it
that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet
of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
10) Then fell she down straightway at
his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her
dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
(11) And great fear came upon all the
church, and upon as many as heard these things.
17:24-25 (24) God that made the world
and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not
in temples made with hands;
(25) Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as
though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all
things;
20:35 I have shewed you all things,
how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of
the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Romans
6:6-22 (6) Knowing this, that our
old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that
henceforth we should not serve sin.
(7) For he that is dead is freed from sin.
(8) Now if we be dead with Christ, we
believe that we shall also live with him: (9) Knowing that Christ being raised
from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
(10) For in that he died, he died unto
sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
(11) Likewise reckon ye also yourselves
to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(12) Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
(13) Neither yield ye your members as
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those
that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness
unto God.
(14) For sin shall not have dominion over you:
for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (15) What then? shall we sin, because
we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
(16) Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin
unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? (17) But God be thanked, that ye were
the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine
which was delivered you.
(18) Being then made free from sin, ye became the
servants of righteousness.
(19) I speak after the manner of men because of
the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to
uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members
servants to righteousness unto holiness.
(20) For when ye were the servants of sin, ye
were free from righteousness.
(21) What fruit had ye then in those things
whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
(22) But now being made free from sin,
and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end
everlasting life.
12:1-2 (1) I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
(2) And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
I Corinthians
4:1-2 (1) Let a man so account of
us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
(2) Moreover it is required in
stewards, that a man be found faithful.
6:19-20 (19) What? know ye not that
your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own?
(20) For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
12:1-31 (1) Now concerning spiritual
gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. (2) Ye know that ye were Gentiles,
carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
(3) Wherefore I give you to understand,
that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no
man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
(4) Now there are diversities of gifts,
but the same Spirit.
(5) And there are differences of administrations,
but the same Lord.
(6) And there are diversities of operations, but
it is the same God which worketh all in all. (7) But the manifestation of the Spirit
is given to every man to profit withal.
(8) For to one is given by the Spirit the word
of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
(9) To another faith by the same
Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
(10) To another the working of
miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another
divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
(11) But all these worketh that one and
the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
(12) For as the body is one, and hath
many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so
also is Christ.
(13) For by one Spirit are we all baptized into
one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have
been all made to drink into one Spirit.
(14) For the body is not one member, but many.
(15) If the foot shall say, Because I
am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
(16) And if the ear shall say, Because
I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
(17) If the whole body were an eye,
where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
(18) But now hath God set the members
every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
(19) And if they were all one member,
where were the body?
(20) But now are they many members, yet but one
body.
(21) And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the
head to the feet, I have no need of you.
(22) Nay, much more those members of the body,
which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: (23) And those members of the body,
which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour;
and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
(24) For our comely parts have no need:
but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to
that part which lacked.
(25) That there should be no schism in the body;
but that the members should have the same care one for another.
(26) And whether one member suffer, all
the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice
with it.
(27) Now ye are the body of Christ, and members
in particular.
(28) And God hath set some in the church, first
apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then
gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
(29) Are all apostles? are all
prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
(30) Have all the gifts of healing? do
all speak with tongues? do all interpret? (31) But covet earnestly the best
gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
16:1-4 (1) Now concerning the
collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia,
even so do ye.
(2) Upon the first day of the week let every one
of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no
gatherings when I come.
(3) And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve
by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
(4) And if it be meet that I go also,
they shall go with me.
II
Corinthians
8:1-24 (1) Moreover, brethren, we
do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
(2) How that in a great trial of
affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the
riches of their liberality.
(3) For to their power, I bear record, yea, and
beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
(4) Praying us with much intreaty that
we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to
the saints.
(5) And this they did, not as we hoped, but first
gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
(6) Insomuch that we desired Titus,
that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
(7) Therefore, as ye abound in every
thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your
love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. (8) I speak not by commandment, but by
occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
(9) For ye know the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that
ye through his poverty might be rich.
(10) And herein I give my advice: for this is
expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward
a year ago.
(11) Now therefore perform the doing of it; that
as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that
which ye have.
(12) For if there be first a willing mind, it is
accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
(13) For I mean not that other men be
eased, and ye burdened:
(14) But by an equality, that now at this time
your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be
a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
(15) As it is written, He that had
gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
(16) But thanks be to God, which put
the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
(17) For indeed he accepted the
exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
(18) And we have sent with him the
brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;
(19) And not that only, but who was
also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is
administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready
mind:
(20) Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is
administered by us:
(21) Providing for honest things, not only in the
sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men. (22) And we have sent with them our
brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much
more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
(23) Whether any do enquire of Titus,
he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired
of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
(24) Wherefore shew ye to them, and
before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
9:1-15 (1) For as touching the
ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
(2) For I know the forwardness of your
mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a
year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. (3) Yet have I sent the brethren, lest
our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be
ready:
(4) Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me,
and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same
confident boasting.
(5) Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort
the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your
bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter
of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
(6) But this I say, He which soweth sparingly
shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also
bountifully.
(7) Every man according as he purposeth in his
heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a
cheerful giver.
(8) And God is able to make all grace abound
toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to
every good work:
(9) (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad;
he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.
(10) Now he that ministereth seed to
the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and
increase the fruits of your righteousness;) (11) Being enriched in every thing to
all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
(12) For the administration of this
service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many
thanksgivings unto God;
(13) Whiles by the experiment of this
ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of
Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
(14) And by their prayer for you, which
long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
(15) Thanks be unto God for his
unspeakable gift.
12:15 And I will very gladly spend and
be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Philippians
4:10-19 (10) But I rejoiced in the
Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again;
wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
(11) Not that I speak in respect of
want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
(12) I know both how to be abased, and
I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be
full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
(13) I can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me.
(14) Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye
did communicate with my affliction.
(15) Now ye Philippians know also, that in the
beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated
with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
(16) For even in Thessalonica ye sent
once and again unto my necessity.
(17) Not because I desire a gift: but I desire
fruit that may abound to your account.
(18) But I have all, and abound: I am full,
having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of
a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
(19) But my God shall supply all your
need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
I Peter
1:18-19 (18) Forasmuch as ye know
that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your
vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; (19)
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without
spot:
Exodus
17:12 But Moses hands were heavy; and
they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur
stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side;
and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
18:17 And Moses' father in law said
unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.
Judges
7:21 And they stood every man in his
place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
Ezra
1:3-4 (3) Who is there among you
of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is
in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which
is in Jerusalem.
(4) And whosoever remaineth in any place where he
sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and
with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God
that is in Jerusalem.
2:68-69 (68) And some of the chief
of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem,
offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
(69) They gave after their ability unto
the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five
thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
5:14-15 (14) And the vessels also of
gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple
that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did
Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto
one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
(15) And said unto him, Take these
vessels, go, carry them into the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house
of God be builded in his place.
Nehemiah
4:1-23 (1) But it came to pass,
that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great
indignation, and mocked the Jews.
(2) And he spake before his brethren and the army
of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves?
will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones
out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? (3) Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him,
and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break
down their stone wall.
(4) Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and
turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of
captivity:
(5) And cover not their iniquity, and let not
their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger
before the builders.
(6) So built we the wall; and all the wall was
joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
(7) But it came to pass, that when
Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites,
heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to
be stopped, then they were very wroth,
(8) And conspired all of them together to come
and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it. (9) Nevertheless we made our prayer
unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
(10) And Judah said, The strength of
the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not
able to build the wall.
(11) And our adversaries said, They shall not
know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and
cause the work to cease.
(12) And it came to pass, that when the Jews
which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye
shall return unto us they will be upon you. (13) Therefore set I in the lower
places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after
their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
(14) And I looked, and rose up, and
said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not
ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for
your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
(15) And it came to pass, when our
enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to
nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
(16) And it came to pass from that time
forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of
them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and
the rulers were behind all the house of Judah. (17) They which builded on the wall,
and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his
hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.
(18) For the builders, every one had
his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet
was by me.
(19) And I said unto the nobles, and to the
rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are
separated upon the wall, one far from another. (20) In what place therefore ye hear
the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
(21) So we laboured in the work: and
half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars
appeared.
(22) Likewise at the same time said I unto the
people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night
they may be a guard to us, and labour on the day. (23) So neither I, nor my brethren, nor
my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our
clothes, saving that every one put them off for washing.
8:1-5 (1) And all the people
gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the
water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of
Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. (2) And Ezra the priest brought the law
before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with
understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
(3) And he read therein before the
street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the
men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the
people were attentive unto the book of the law. (4) And Ezra the scribe stood upon a
pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood
Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his
right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum,
and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. (5) And Ezra opened the book in the
sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened
it, all the people stood up:
Matthew
10:5-15 (5) These twelve Jesus sent
forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into
any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
(6) But go rather to the lost sheep of the
house of Israel.
(7) And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
(8) Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the
dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
(9) Provide neither gold, nor silver,
nor brass in your purses,
(10) Nor scrip for your journey, neither two
coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
(11) And into whatsoever city or town
ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.
(12) And when ye come into an house,
salute it.
(13) And if the house be worthy, let your peace
come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
(14) And whosoever shall not receive
you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off
the dust of your feet.
(15) Verily I say unto you, It shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for
that city.
20:1-16 (1) For the kingdom of
heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the
morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. (2) And when he had agreed with the
labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
(3) And he went out about the third
hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
(4) And said unto them; Go ye also into
the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
(5) Again he went out about the sixth
and ninth hour, and did likewise.
(6) And about the eleventh hour he went out, and
found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day
idle?
(7) They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye
also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
(8) So when even was come, the lord of
the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their
hire, beginning from the last unto the first. (9) And when they came that were hired
about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
(10) But when the first came, they
supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every
man a penny.
(11) And when they had received it, they murmured
against the goodman of the house,
(12) Saying, These last have wrought but one
hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and
heat of the day.
(13) But he answered one of them, and said,
Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
(14) Take that thine is, and go thy
way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
(15) Is it not lawful for me to do what
I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
(16) So the last shall be first, and
the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
22:1-10 (1) And Jesus answered and
spake unto them again by parables, and said, (2) The kingdom of heaven is like unto
a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, (3) And sent forth his servants to call
them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
(4) Again, he sent forth other
servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner:
my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the
marriage.
(5) But they made light of it, and went their
ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise: (6) And the remnant took his servants,
and entreated them spitefully, and slew them. (7) But when the king heard thereof, he
was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and
burned up their city.
(8) Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is
ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. (9) Go ye therefore into the highways,
and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. (10) So those servants went out into
the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and
good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.
28:19-20 (19) Go ye therefore, and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and
of the Holy Ghost:
(20) Teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end
of the world. Amen.
Mark
2:3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was
borne of four.
Luke
10:1 After these things the LORD appointed other seventy also, and sent
them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself
would come.
Acts
1:13-14 (13) And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room,
where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas,
Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and
Judas the brother of James.
(14) These all continued
with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother
of Jesus, and with his brethren.
2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one
accord in one place.
4:31-37 (31) And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they
were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they
spake the word of God with boldness.
(32) And
the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither
said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but
they had all things common.
(33) And with great power
gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace
was upon them all. (34)
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of
lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
(35) And
laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man
according as he had need.
(36) And Joses, who by the
apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of
consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,
(37)
Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
13:2-3 (2) As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said,
Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
(3) And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them,
they sent them away.
15:1-35 (1) And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the
brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye
cannot be saved. (2) When therefore Paul and Barnabas
had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and
Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles
and elders about this question.
(3) And being brought on
their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the
conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
(4) And
when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the
apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
(5) But
there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That
it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
(6) And
the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
(7) And
when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and
brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the
Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
(8) And
God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost,
even as he did unto us; (9)
And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
(10) Now
therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which
neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
(11) But
we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved,
even as they. (12)
Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul,
declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.
(13) And
after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren,
hearken unto me: (14)
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of
them a people for his name.
(15) And to this agree the
words of the prophets; as it is written,
(16) After
this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is
fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
(17) That
the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my
name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
(18) Known
unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
(19)
Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the
Gentiles are turned to God:
(20) But that we write unto
them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from
things strangled, and from blood.
(21) For
Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the
synagogues every sabbath day.
(22) Then pleased it the
apostles and elders with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own
company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas and
Silas, chief men among the brethren:
(23) And
they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles and elders and
brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch
and Syria and Cilicia. (24)
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled
you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep
the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
(25) It
seemed good unto us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men unto
you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
(26) Men
that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(27) We
have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by
mouth. (28)
For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater
burden than these necessary things;
(29) That
ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things
strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do
well. Fare ye well. (30) So when they were dismissed,
they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they
delivered the epistle: (31)
Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.
(32) And
Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many
words, and confirmed them.
(33) And after they had
tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the
apostles. (34)
Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
(35) Paul
also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the
Lord, with many others also.
I Corinthians
1:10-17 (10) Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among
you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same
judgment. (11)
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the
house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
(12) Now
this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I
of Cephas; and I of Christ.
(13) Is Christ divided? was
Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
(14) I
thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;
(15) Lest
any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.
(16) And I
baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized
any other. (17)
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
3:5-15 (5) Who then is Paul, and
who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to
every man?
(6) I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave
the increase.
(7) So then neither is he that planteth any
thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
(8) Now he
that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own
reward according to his own labour.
(9) For we
are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
(10)
According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I
have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take
heed how he buildeth thereupon.
(11) For other foundation
can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
(12) Now
if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,
stubble; (13)
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because
it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what
sort it is. (14)
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a
reward. (15)
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be
saved; yet so as by fire.
12:1-31 (1) Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you
ignorant. (2) Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried
away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
(3)
Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God
calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by
the Holy Ghost. (4)
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
(5) And
there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
(6) And
there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in
all. (7)
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
(8) For to
one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge
by the same Spirit; (9)
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same
Spirit; (10)
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning
of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of
tongues: (11)
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man
severally as he will. (12)
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one
body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
(13) For
by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
(14) For
the body is not one member, but many.
(15) If
the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it
therefore not of the body?
(16) And if the ear shall
say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the
body? (17)
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were
hearing, where were the smelling?
(18) But
now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased
him. (19) And if they were all one member, where were
the body? (20)
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
(21) And
the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to
the feet, I have no need of you.
(22) Nay, much more those
members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
(23) And
those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we
bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant
comeliness. (24)
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together,
having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.
(25) That
there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same
care one for another. (26)
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be
honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
(27) Now
ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
(28) And
God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly
teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments,
diversities of tongues. (29) Are all apostles? are all
prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
(30) Have
all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
(31) But
covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
II Corinthians
8:1-24 (1) Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God
bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
(2) How
that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep
poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
(3) For to
their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of
themselves; (4)
Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us
the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
(5) And
this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and
unto us by the will of God.
(6) Insomuch that we desired
Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
(7)
Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge,
and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace
also. (8)
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to
prove the sincerity of your love.
(9) For ye
know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your
sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
(10) And
herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before,
not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
(11) Now
therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so
there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
(12) For
if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath,
and not according to that he hath not.
(13) For I
mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
(14) But
by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their
want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be
equality: (15)
As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had
gathered little had no lack.
(16) But thanks be to God,
which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
(17) For
indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he
went unto you. (18)
And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout
all the churches; (19)
And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us
with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and
declaration of your ready mind:
(20) Avoiding this, that
no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
(21)
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the
sight of men. (22)
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent
in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I
have in you. (23) Whether any do enquire of Titus, he is
my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be enquired of, they
are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
(24)
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and
of our boasting on your behalf.
9:1-15 (1) For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is
superfluous for me to write to you:
(2) For I
know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of
Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very
many. (3)
Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this
behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
(4) Lest
haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we
say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
(5)
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go
before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice
before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of
covetousness. (6)
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he
which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
(7) Every
man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or
of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
(8) And
God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all
sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
(9) (As it
is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his
righteousness remaineth for ever.
(10) Now
he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and
multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
(11) Being
enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us
thanksgiving to God. (12) For the administration of this
service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many
thanksgivings unto God; (13)
Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your
professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal
distribution unto them, and unto all men;
(14) And
by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in
you. (15)
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
Galatians
1:6-10 (6) I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you
into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
(7) Which
is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel
of Christ. (8)
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than
that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
(9) As we
said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you
than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
(10) For
do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased
men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Ephesians
4:1-16 (1) I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye
walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
(2) With
all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
(3)
Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
(4) There
is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
(5) One
Lord, one faith, one baptism,
(6) One God and Father of
all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
(7) But
unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of
Christ. (8)
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and
gave gifts unto men. (9)
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the
lower parts of the earth?
(10) He that descended is
the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all
things.) (11) And he gave some, apostles; and some,
prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
(12) For
the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of
the body of Christ: (13)
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of
God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of
Christ: (14)
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about
with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness,
whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
(15) But
speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the
head, even Christ: (16)
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every
joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every
part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Philippians
1:15-18 (15) Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some
also of good will: (16)
The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction
to my bonds: (17) But the other of love, knowing that I
am set for the defence of the gospel.
(18) What then? notwithstanding, every way,
whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice,
yea, and will rejoice.
Exodus
20:3-17 (3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
(4) Thou
shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is
in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under
the earth. (5)
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto
the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
(6) And
shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
(7) Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will
not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
(8)
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
(9) Six
days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
(10) But
the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any
work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
(11) For
in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,
and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and
hallowed it. (12)
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which
the LORD thy God giveth thee.
(13) Thou shalt not kill.
(14) Thou
shalt not commit adultery.
(15) Thou shalt not steal.
(16) Thou
shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
(17) Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any
thing that is thy neighbour's.
Leviticus
6:2-5 (2) If a soul
sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that
which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by
violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
(3) Or
have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely;
in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
(4) Then
it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that
which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or
that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,
(5) Or all
that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the
principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to
whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.
Deuteronomy
10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to
fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve
the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
Psalm
101:5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that
hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Micah
6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD
require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
thy God?
Zechariah
8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth
to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:
Matthew
5:13-16 (13) Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his
savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to
be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
(14) Ye
are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
(15)
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick;
and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
(16) Let
your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify
your Father which is in heaven.
5:43-48 (43) Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
(44) But I say unto you,
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and
pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
(45) That
ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun
to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the
unjust. (46)
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the
publicans the same? (47) And if ye salute your brethren
only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
(48) Be ye
therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
22:36-40 (36) Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
(37) Jesus
said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind.
(38) This is the first
and great commandment. (39)
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(40) On
these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
25:35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave
me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Mark
1:29-34 (29) And forthwith, when they were come