ITTLE children, guard yourselves from idols.--Come out from their midst and be separate, says the Lord, and do not touch what is unclean and I will welcome you, and I will be a Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.--You cannot serve God and mammon.

      You shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God-- Serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts.

      Behold, Thou dost desire truth in the innermost being, and in the hidden part Thou wilt make me know wisdom.--Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.-- Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God.
 

E came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him -- The Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith.

      Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.
      Of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time is. -- Blessed are those slaves whom the master shall find on the alert when he comes -- Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus

Y thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth, and making it bear and sprout, and furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth. It shall not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
      God has shut up all in disobedience that He might show mercy to all. Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!

inners in Zion are terrified; trembling has seized the godless. Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning? --  We had the sentence of death within ourselves in order that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; Who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver us, He on Whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us -- The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

      It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.--Therefore knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men.

      Be ready in season and out of season -- Save others, snatching them out of the fire.

      Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.-- Who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
 

OU have not come to a mountain that may be touched and to a blazing fire, and to darkness and gloom and whirlwind...but you have come to Mount Zion...to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant. -- Jesus the Author and Perfector of our faith.-- We do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need.
      Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and His Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God besides Me.-- Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

      Art Thou not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Thou, O LORD, hast appointed them to judge and Thou, O Rock.

E anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

      When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou didst know my path.--He knows the way I take: When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.--Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.-- Thou hast been a defense for the helpless, a defense for the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat.
     Who is a rock, except our God? --they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand.--Sustain me according to Thy word, that I may live; and do not let me be ashamed of my hope.--This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil

ET him rely on My protection. Let him make peace with Me. Let him make peace with Me.

      O woman, your faith is great; be it done for you as you wish.--Be it done to you according to your faith. -- Let him ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man expect that he will receive anything from the Lord.

      They approached the village where they were going, and He acted as though He would go farther... and He went in to stay with them. and they urged Him, saying, Stay with us...and He vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us? -- I pray Thee, if I have found favor in Thy sight, let me know Thy ways, that I may know Thee, so that I may find favor in Thy sight...My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.

AM the Alpha and the Omega says the Lord God, Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty..-- Who has performed and accomplished it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, am the first, and with the last. I am He.

      To those who are the called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

     The God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. -- He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. --Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? --The LORD will accomplish what concerns me.

      It it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

HO is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. -- Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us

      If  anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.-- There is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus

      Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need. --Through through Him we... have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
 

HIS is His name by which He will be called, The LORD our righteousness.--I will come with the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD; I will make mention of Thy righteousness, Thine alone.

      His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor.-- I know, O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself; Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.

      Mighty God, Eternal Father.--I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

      The Prince of Peace.--He Himself is our peace.-- Having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ

      The name of the LORD is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe.--Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help --Like flying birds so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it; He will pass over and rescue it.

E we exult in hope of the glory of God. And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations --I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.-- Though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory

      In in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.--To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things

      Did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?--God is able to make all grace abound to you, that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed

N all their affliction He was afflicted, And the angel of His presence saved them; In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them; And He lifted them and carried them--He whom You love is sick.-- My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.--I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

      We do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day.

      In in Him we live and move and exist.--He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power. Though youths grow weary and tired, and vigorous young men stumble badly yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run and not get tired. They will walk and not become weary --The eternal God is a dwelling place, And underneath are the everlasting arms;
 

hile we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.-- He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

     In Him all the fulness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority.

      Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing -- The wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.-- To each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.

      If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.-- Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom.
 

pray Thee, show me Thy glory!...But He said, You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!.--No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

      Every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him -- I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near.

      I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall see God.-- I shall behold Thy face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Thy likeness when I awake. -- We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is.-- The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
 

EAR not for you will not be put to shame; Neither feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced; but you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more. For your husband is your Maker, Whose name is the LORD of hosts; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel -- I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud, And your sins like a heavy mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you. -- With precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

      Their Redeemer is strong, the LORD of hosts is His name; He will vigorously plead their case.-- My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand.

      Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to Whom be the glory forevermore. Amen.
 

E brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm -- The Son of God... Who loved me and delivered Himself up for me.-- He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? --God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

      Who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge. -- Who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.

      God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus
 

EHOLD,  I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.-- Your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you," declares the Lord GOD.

      I am a sinful man, O Lord! -- How beautiful you are, my darling, How beautiful you are!

      I retract, and I repent in dust and ashes.-- You are altogether beautiful, my darling, And there is no blemish in you.

      I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wishes to do good.-- Take courage, My son, your sins are forgiven.

      I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh -- In Him you have been made complete -- Complete in Christ.

      You are washed... you were sanctified... you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.--That you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
 

came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.--Whoever . . . whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God -- Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

    If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.-- I have given them Thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Y beloved brethren.... let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger.--He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city. -- If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well -- By by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned.--Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth. Keep watch over the door of my lips.

      Christ... suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH and while being reviled, He did not revile in return, while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously -- Consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart.

      No lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.

WILL instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go. I will counsel you with My eye upon you.-- Good and upright is the LORD; Therefore He instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in justice, and He teaches the humble His way.

      I am the door. If anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

      Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, but through Me.-- We have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

      So let us know, let us press on to know the LORD.-- All the paths of the LORD are lovingkindness and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.

HE Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never by the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered. -- Through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

      Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham. Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
 

HERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE... THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD, THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE.-- There is not a righteous man on earth who continually does good and who never sins. -- How then can a man be just with God? Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

      Let us fear lest, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
      I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

      The LORD... has taken away your sin; you shall not die. -- whom He justified, these He also glorified.-- We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. -- If indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard.

      Walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
 

E who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully --On the first day of every week let each one of you put aside and save, as he may prosper.

      God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.

      I urge you... brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.--The the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died and He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. --Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

OU will have the LORD for an everlasting light, and your God for your glory.

      The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.--They shall not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall illumine them.

      You are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light -- Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light for He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son.-- You were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

      We are not of night nor of darkness.

      The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines brighter and brighter until the full day.