51 I tell you the truth. If anyone obeys my word, he will never die.
1 The Word already was, way back before anything began to be. The Word and God were together. The Word was God.
1 The Word already was, way back before anything began to be. The Word and God were together. The Word was God.
18 But what comes out of the mouth, comes from the heart. This is what makes a person dirty.
19 Here is what comes from the heart: wrong thoughts, killing people, all kinds of adultery, stealing, lying, and saying wrong things about people.
3 He shines as bright as God. He is just like God himself. He holds up the world by the power of his word. He made people clean from their wrong ways. Then he sat down beside God in heaven.
12 Gods word is living and full of power. It is more sharp than any sword that cuts on both sides. What God says cuts through and divides the mind and spirit. It cuts through and divides the place where the bones are joined, and the part inside the bone. What God says is able to judge the things people think and plan in their hearts.
12 Gods word is living and full of power. It is more sharp than any sword that cuts on both sides. What God says cuts through and divides the mind and spirit. It cuts through and divides the place where the bones are joined, and the part inside the bone. What God says is able to judge the things people think and plan in their hearts.
22 But obey Gods word. Do not just listen to it. If you just listen to it, you fool yourselves.
22 But obey Gods word. Do not just listen to it. If you just listen to it, you fool yourselves.
22 But obey Gods word. Do not just listen to it. If you just listen to it, you fool yourselves.
23 Anyone who just listens to the word, and does not obey it, is like a man who looks at his face in a looking glass.
24 He looks at himself and goes away, and right away he forgets what he looked like.
16 All that is written in the holy writings comes from the Spirit of God. The holy writings are good for these things: to teach people, to show them when they are wrong, to make them see what is right, to teach them to do what is right.
17 In this way a person who belongs to God has all he needs. He is ready for every kind of good work.
16 All that is written in the holy writings comes from the Spirit of God. The holy writings are good for these things: to teach people, to show them when they are wrong, to make them see what is right, to teach them to do what is right.
17 In this way a person who belongs to God has all he needs. He is ready for every kind of good work.
22 After Jesus died and had been raised from death, the disciples remembered that he had said this to them. Then they believed what the holy writings say. They also believed what Jesus had said to them.
4 Jesus answered him, The holy writings say, "Man cannot live on bread only."
24 Everyone who hears what I say and obeys me will be like a man who has good sense. He built his house on a rock.
17 Make them clean by the true word and keep them for yourself. Your word is true.
31 Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, If you obey my word, you are truly my disciples.
32 And you will understand the truth and the truth will make you free.
14 The Word became man and he lived among us. We saw with our own eyes that he is great. He is great the way God the Father made his only Son great. We saw that he is full of loving kindness and truth.
14 The Word became man and he lived among us. We saw with our own eyes that he is great. He is great the way God the Father made his only Son great. We saw that he is full of loving kindness and truth.
36 I tell you this. On the day when people are judged, they will pay for every empty word they have said.
37 Because of your words, you will be called good. Or because of your words, you will be punished.
4 But Jesus answered him, The holy writings say, "Man cannot live on bread only. He needs to live by every word that God says."
4 But Jesus answered him, The holy writings say, "Man cannot live on bread only. He needs to live by every word that God says."
1 Does Christ speak to you? Does love call to you? Do you have a part in the Holy Spirit? Do you have any love and care for others?
2 Then make me very, very happy. Live in happiness with one another. Have the same love for each other. Think the same way. Agree together about things. All have one purpose in mind.
3 Do not try to prove you are better than others. Do not be proud of yourselves, but be humble. Think of other people as being better than yourselves.
4 Each one of you should not think only about himself, but about other people also.
5 Think the same way Jesus Christ thought.
6 He was in every way like God. Yet he did not think that being equal to God was something he must hold on to.
7 He gave this up and became a servant. He was born a baby.
8 And when he was a man, he was humble. He was even willing to die, yes, to die on a cross.
9 That is why God has made him very great. God has given him a name above every name.
10 Everyone in heaven, everyone on earth, and everyone under the earth will kneel before the name of Jesus.
11 Everyone will admit that Jesus Christ is Lord. They will praise God the Father for this.
12 My dear people, you have always obeyed me. God has saved you from wrong ways. Now show this by the good things that you do. You must live that way, not only when I am with you, but much more now that I am not with you. Think of how wrong it will be if you do not. Try hard to work out how to do it.
13 For God is at work in you. He helps you want to do it. And he helps you do what he wants you to do.
14 Do everything without grumbling or making trouble.
15 In that way you will be completely good. No one will be able to say anything wrong about you. You will be Gods good children living amongst bad people. Among them you will shine like lights in the world.
16 You will have the message of life for them. I will be proud of you when Christ comes. My work and trouble will not be for nothing.
17 The life you live because you believe in God is like a sacrifice. Even if I am killed, it will be like wine which people pour on a sacrifice. I am happy to do this for you, and I am happy about you.
18 In the same way you must be happy. And you must be happy about me.
19 I hope the Lord Jesus will let me send Timothy to you soon. I will be glad to hear about you.
20 I have no one like Timothy. He is troubled to know about you.
21 All the other people think only of themselves and not of Jesus Christ.
22 But you know what a good man Timothy is. You know that he has worked with me in telling the good news. He has worked just as a son works with his father.
23 So I hope to send him to you as soon as I see what happens to me.
24 And I trust that the Lord will let me come to you soon myself.
25 I thought I must send Epaphroditus, our Christian brother, back to you. He has worked with me and has also been a soldier of Christ with me. He was your messenger and he brought your gift for my needs.
26 I am sending him back because he has been lonely without you all. And his heart has been troubled because you heard that he was sick.
27 He was very sick! He almost died! But God was kind to him. He was not only kind to him, but also to me. God did not let me have one trouble after another.
28 I want even more to send him to you so that you will be happy when you see him again. And I will not be so troubled any more.
29 So receive him with much joy because he is a Christian brother. Give respect to men like him.
30 He almost died doing the work of Christ. You wished to help me, but you could not come. He came instead. He was willing to put his life in danger in order to help me.
21 So stop all your dirty living. Stop doing so many wrong things. Listen quietly to the word that has been put in your hearts. It is able to save you.
2 We all do many wrong things. Any man who never says anything wrong is right in every way. He is able to make his whole body do what is right.
34 You family of snakes! How can you say good things? You are wrong! The mouth will say what is in the heart.
31 The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
38 If anyone believes in me, the holy writings say, "Rivers of water that give life will flow out of his heart."
41 They said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of what you told us, but because of what he himself has told us. We know it is true. This is the Saviour of the world.
9 If you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and if you believe in your heart that God has raised Christ from death, you will be saved.
10 A person believes with his heart, and he is made right with God. He speaks with his mouth and so is saved from his wrong ways.
3 We put a piece of iron in the mouths of horses so they will obey us. Then we can make their whole bodies go where we want them to go.
4 Look at the big boats also. They are very big. The strong winds push them along. But a man uses a small piece of wood and makes the boat go where he wants it to go.
5 A persons tongue is like that. It is a small part of the body but it talks about big things. A very small fire can burn a big pile of wood!
6 The tongue is like a fire. It is like a whole world of trouble. It is a part of our body. And it makes our whole body bad. It burns up our whole life. And the fire that makes the tongue burn comes from hell.
7 People have been able to tame all kinds of animals, birds, snakes, and fish.
8 But no one can tame the tongue. It is a bad thing that will not be ruled. It is full of poison that can kill.
2 Babies who have just been born want milk very much. In the same way, you should want Gods word. That is like good milk. It will make you grow up so that you will then be fully saved.
17 Always talk to God in the Spirit. Talk to him about everything and ask him for what you need. Put your mind on what you are saying, asking God to help all his people.
36 All the people were very much surprised. They said to each other, What kind of talk is this? He can make bad spirits obey him. He tells them to come out and they come out.
24 I tell you the truth. The person who hears what I say and believes in him that sent me will live for ever. He will not be judged. He has already passed from death to life.
31 Jesus said to the Jews who believed in him, If you obey my word, you are truly my disciples.
35 The sky and the earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
3 We believe in God, so that is how we know that God made the world by his word. The things we see were made out of things that cannot be seen.
28 But Jesus said, Happy are those who hear Gods word and obey it!
16 All that is written in the holy writings comes from the Spirit of God. The holy writings are good for these things: to teach people, to show them when they are wrong, to make them see what is right, to teach them to do what is right.
3 What I said to you has made you clean already.
23 Jesus said to him, If a person loves me, he will obey me. My Father also will love him. And we will come to him and will live with him.