51 In most solemn truth I tell you that if any one shall have obeyed my teaching he shall in no case ever see death.«
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
18 But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech.
3 Already you are cleansed–through the teaching which I have given you.
16 Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;
3 He brightly reflects God's glory and is the exact representation of His being, and upholds the universe by His all-powerful word. After securing man's purification from sin He took His seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
22 But prove yourselves obedient to the Message, and do not be mere hearers of it, imposing a delusion upon yourselves.
22 But prove yourselves obedient to the Message, and do not be mere hearers of it, imposing a delusion upon yourselves.
28 »Nay rather,« He replied, »they are blessed who hear God's Message and carefully keep it.«
22 But prove yourselves obedient to the Message, and do not be mere hearers of it, imposing a delusion upon yourselves.
23 For if any one listens but does not obey, he is like a man who carefully looks at his own face in a mirror.
24 Although he has looked carefully at himself, he goes away, and has immediately forgotten the sort of man he is.
12 For God's Message is full of life and power, and is keener than the sharpest two-edged sword. It pierces even to the severance of soul from spirit, and penetrates between the joints and the marrow, and it can discern the secret thoughts and purposes of the heart.
12 For God's Message is full of life and power, and is keener than the sharpest two-edged sword. It pierces even to the severance of soul from spirit, and penetrates between the joints and the marrow, and it can discern the secret thoughts and purposes of the heart.
16 Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;
17 so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped for every good work.
16 Every Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for convincing, for correction of error, and for instruction in right doing;
17 so that the man of God may himself be complete and may be perfectly equipped for every good work.
31 Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.
14 And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory–the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.
14 And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory–the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.
4 »It is written,« replied Jesus, »It is not on bread alone that a man shall live.'«
17 Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.
2 For we often stumble and fall, all of us. If there is any one who never stumbles in speech, that man has reached maturity of character and is able to curb his whole nature.
2 Thirst, like newly-born infants, for pure milk for the soul, that by it you may grow up to salvation;
21 Ridding yourselves, therefore, of all that is vile and of the evil influences which prevail around you, welcome in a humble spirit the Message implanted within you, which is able to save your souls.
24 »In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.«
22 When however He had risen from among the dead, His disciples recollected that He had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the teaching which Jesus had given them.
4 »It is written,« replied Jesus, »It is not on bread alone that a man shall live, but on whatsoever God shall appoint.'«
4 »It is written,« replied Jesus, »It is not on bread alone that a man shall live, but on whatsoever God shall appoint.'«
24 »Every one who hears these my teachings and acts upon them will be found to resemble a wise man who builds his house upon rock;«
38 He who believes in me, from within him –as the Scripture has said– rivers of living water shall flow.«
1 If then I can appeal to you as the followers of Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love and any common sharing of the Spirit, or if you have any tender-heartedness and compassion, make my joy complete by being of one mind,
2 united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.
3 Do nothing in a spirit of factiousness or of vainglory, but, with true humility, let every one regard the rest as being of more account than himself;
4 each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.
5 Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus.
6 Although from the beginning He had the nature of God He did not reckon His equality with God a treasure to be tightly grasped.
7 Nay, He stripped Himself of His glory, and took on Him the nature of a bondservant by becoming a man like other men.
8 And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.
9 It is in consequence of this that God has also so highly exalted Him, and has conferred on Him the Name which is supreme above every other,
10 in order that in the Name of JESUS every knee should bow, of beings in Heaven, of those on the earth, and of those in the underworld,
11 and that every tongue should confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD, to the glory of God the Father.
12 Therefore, my dearly-loved friends, as I have always found you obedient, labour earnestly with fear and trembling –not merely as though I were present with you, but much more now since I am absent from you– labour earnestly, I say, to make sure of your own salvation.
13 For it is God Himself whose power creates within you the desire to do His gracious will and also brings about the accomplishment of the desire.
14 Be ever on your guard against a grudging and contentious spirit,
15 so that you may always prove yourselves to be blameless and spotless–irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as heavenly lights in the world,
16 holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor toil in vain.
17 Nay, even if my life is to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I rejoice, and I congratulate you all.
18 And I bid you also share my gladness, and congratulate me.
19 But, if the Lord permits it, I hope before long to send Timothy to you, that I, in turn, may be cheered by getting news of you.
20 For I have no one likeminded with him, who will cherish a genuine care for you.
21 Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.
22 But you know Timothy's approved worth–how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
23 So it is he that I hope to send as soon as ever I see how things go with me;
24 but trusting, as I do, in the Lord, I believe that I shall myself also come to you before long.
25 Yet I deem it important to send Epaphroditus to you now–he is my brother and comrade both in labour and in arms, and is your messenger who has ministered to my needs.
26 I send him because he is longing to see you all and is distressed at your having heard of his illness.
27 For it is true that he has been ill, and was apparently at the point of death; but God had pity on him, and not only on him, but also on me, to save me from having sorrow upon sorrow.
28 I am therefore all the more eager to send him, in the hope that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have the less sorrow.
29 Receive him therefore with heartfelt Christian joy, and hold in honour men like him;
30 because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to me.
41 Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,
9 that if with your mouth you confess Jesus as Lord and in your heart believe that God brought Him back to life, you shall be saved.
10 For with the heart men believe and obtain righteousness, and with the mouth they make confession and obtain salvation.
36 All were astonished and awe-struck; and they asked one another, »What sort of language is this? For with authority and real power He gives orders to the foul spirits and they come out.«
31 Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, »As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;
36 But I tell you that for every careless word that men shall speak they will be held accountable on the day of Judgement.
37 For each of you by his words shall be justified, or by his words shall be condemned.«
23 »If any one loves me,« replied Jesus, »he will obey my teaching; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
3 Remember that we put the horses' bit into their mouths to make them obey us, and so we turn their whole bodies round.
4 So too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice of the man at the helm chooses.
5 In the same way the tongue is an insignificant part of the body, but it is immensely boastful. Remember how a mere spark may set a vast forest in flames.
6 And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna.
7 For brute nature under all its forms –beasts and birds, reptiles and fishes– can be subjected and kept in subjection by human nature.
8 But the tongue no man or woman is able to tame. It is an ever-busy mischief, and is full of deadly poison.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds came into being, and still exist, at the command of God, so that what is seen does not owe its existence to that which is visible.
34 O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.
35 Earth and sky will pass away, but it is certain that my words will not pass away.
17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.
31 Jesus therefore said to those of the Jews who had now believed in Him, »As for you, if you hold fast to my teaching, then you are truly my disciples;
32 and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth will make you free.«