Y grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God--Without faith it is impossible to please him.--He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.-- I do believe; help my unbelief.
      Whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him --faith working through love --Faith without works is useless
      We walk by faith, not by sight.-- I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me --though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.
 

IKE as a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him --The LORD is gracious and compassionate. He has given food to those who fear Him. He will remember His covenant forever.
      He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.-- Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, He spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions. The LORD alone guided him, and there was no foreign god with him.
      His compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is Thy faithfulness.
      He went ashore, He saw a great multitude, and felt compassion for them, and healed their sick --Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever.
      The very hairs of your head are all numbered. Are not two sparrows sold for a cent? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. Therefore do not fear.

OUR lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old...the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it...and when I see the blood I will pass over you .--The sprinkled blood --Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed -- Delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God -- According to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity
      We have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.
      Since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
 

HO is like unto Thee among the gods, O LORD? Who is like Thee, majestic in holiness, awesome in praises, working wonders?--He saw that there was no man, and was astonished that there was no one to intercede. Then His own arm brought salvation to Him and His righteousness upheld Him-- He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross -- having become a curse for us
      O Sing to the LORD a new song, for He has done wonderful things. His right hand and His holy arm have gained the victory for Him.-- When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.--As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied. By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, as He will bear their iniquities.
      O my soul, march on with strength --We overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.--They overcame... because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony

H how great is thy goodness, which Thou hast stored up for those who fear Thee, which Thou hast wrought for those who take refuge in Thee, before the sons of men! Thou dost hide them in the secret place of Thy presence from the conspiracies of man. Thou dost keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues.
      If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each man's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay upon earth --The LORD is near to all who call upon him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him. He will also hear their cry and will save them.
      Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD...you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you, declares the LORD .--To this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.--The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

veryone who shall confess Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.-- He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake shall find it.
      Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
      Do not fear what you are about to suffer... Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
      For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison --Praise praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ
 

ESUS the author and perfecter of faith.--I glorified Thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which Thou hast given Me to do.--We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.-- Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
      I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again.--Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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.--You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
      Hear my cry, O God; Give heed to my prayer. From the end of the earth I call to Thee, when my heart is faint.--I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; Thou didst hear my voice. For Thou hadst cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the current engulfed me. All Thy breakers and billows passed over me.--We went through fire and through water, yet Thou didst bring us out into a place of abundance.
      When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.

S you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.--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. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
      If any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come -- For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And those who will walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them.--This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind. You did not learn Christ in this way; if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus. Put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

know, O LORD, that a man's way is not in himself; nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps. --Not as I will, but as thou wilt.--Surely I have composed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child rests against his mother, my soul is like a weaned child within me.
      We do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
      You do not know what you are asking for.--He gave them their request; but sent a wasting disease among them --These things happened as examples for us, that we should not crave evil things, as they also craved.
      I want you to be free from concern.--The steadfast of mind Thou wilt keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in Thee.

EE now that I, I am He, And there is no god besides Me. It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded, and it is I who heal and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.-- I know the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.-- My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the LORD.
      I will allure her, bring her into the wilderness, and speak kindly to her.-- The LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son. --All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.-- Humble yourselves therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time
      I know, O LORD, that Thy judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

HE does not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and lavished on her silver and gold. Therefore, I will take back My grain at harvest time and My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax
      All things come from Thee, and from Thy hand we have given Thee. For we are sojourners before Thee, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope. O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided to build Thee a house for Thy holy name, it is from Thy hand, and all is Thine.--For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.
      God...richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.--Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.
      My God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

F thou knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water. -- If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? -- Truly, truly, I say to you, if you shall ask the Father for anything, He will give it to you in My name.
Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full. --You do not have because you do not ask.
      When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine, and shall disclose it to you.
      They rebelled, and grieved His Holy Spirit; Therefore, He turned Himself to become their enemy, He fought against them.

IFT up your heads, O gates, and lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in! Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory.-- On His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
      For you who believe...THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone -- Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block, and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
      I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ .-- Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You

OT that I have already obtained it, or have already become perfect, but I press on in order that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.
--So let us know, let us press on to know the LORD.
      Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear --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.--When the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. -- For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known.--Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him just as He is. And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

he one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out. -- Jesus, remember me when You come in Your kingdom! And He said to him, Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.-- What do you want Me to do for you? They said to Him, Lord, we want our eyes to be opened. And moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him. |
      If you ...being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him? --put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
      This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

HE whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint.
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is nothing sound in it, only bruises, welts, and raw wounds, Not pressed out or bandaged, nor softened with oil.-- All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment.--I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh
     you were washed...you were sanctified... you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.--The king's daughter is all glorious within.--Perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
      Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us.
      These are the ones who.. have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.-- The church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing... holy and blameless.-- In Him you have been made complete

VE gave birth to Cain, and she said, I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD.
      "Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach into heaven...the LORD scattered.--Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed eastward... like the garden of the LORD... the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the LORD.
      I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind. Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain.-- I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself. I collected for myself silver and gold. I considered all my activities...and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.
      If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink --He has satisfied the thirsty soul, and the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.
      Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.

LAMELESS and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world.--You are the salt of the earth... the light of the world.-- Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
      I also kept you from sinning against Me.
      The Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one -- I did not do so because of the fear of God.--Who 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.--Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

HE LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high.--The LORD is high above all nations; His glory is above the heavens. He raises the poor from the dust, And lifts the needy from the ash heap, to make them sit with princes.
      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,
      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? For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

UR Saviour Savior Christ Jesus... abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel --He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord GOD will wipe tears away from all faces, and He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth; for the LORD has spoken.-- But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
      God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline --Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.

OD is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all -- While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
      If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
The Father... 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, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
      You are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness--Y"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Do not fear, declares the LORD, For I am with you...I shall not make a full end of you; but I shall correct you properly -- For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you, says the LORD your Redeemer. For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, but My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, and My covenant of peace will not be shaken, says the LORD Who has compassion on you. O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, Behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and your foundations I will lay in sapphires.
      I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against Him, until He pleads my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me out to the light, and I will see His righteousness.

HEN the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for them, Ehud... a left-handed man. After him came Shamgar...who struck down six hundred Philistines with an ox goad: and he also saved Israel.
      The LORD looked upon Gideon, and said, Go in this your strength...Have I not sent you? And he said unto him, O Lord, how shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's house.
      And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with you  are too many for Me...lest Israel become boastful, saying, My own power has delivered me.
      Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD of hosts.-- Be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might.
 

F I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.--An inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you --Here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.
      This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven --Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.-- Yet in a very little while, He Who is coming will come and will not delay.
      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. Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
      You were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind.
      He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, Whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior
      My thoughts are not your thoughts. Neither are your ways My ways declares the LORD.

hout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and will have compassion on His afflicted --Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation.--The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart exults, and with my song I shall thank Him.--My soul will exult in my God for He has clothed me with garments of salvation. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
      Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.--We also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation..--I will rejoice in the LORD, I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

KNOW Whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.
      Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will.
      And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren and whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

E made complete, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
      By grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not as a result of works, that no one should boast --Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow
      Work out your salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.-- Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
-- Having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
      Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God

OME 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.
-- Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
      Jesus... that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate. Hence, let us go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
      Jesus said Come away by yourselves to a lonely place and rest a while. --The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.