Today Bible Words

Today Bible Words

1 Thessalonians 4:1-18

• Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living.
• Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.
• For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
• It is God's will that you should be sanctified that you should avoid sexual immorality.
• That each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable.
• Not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God, and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him.
• The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you.
• For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
• Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
• Now about brotherly love we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
• And in fact, you do love all the brothers throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers, to do so more and more.
• Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you,
• So that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
• Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope.
• We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
• According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.
• For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
• After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
• And so we will be with the Lord forever.Therefore encourage each other with these words.

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Today Bible Words

Today Bible Words

Romans 8 : 1-40

• Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
• Because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.
• For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering.
• And so he condemned sin in sinful manin order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.
• Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires.
• But those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
• The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.
• The sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
• Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.
• You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.
• And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.
• But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
• And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you.
• He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
• Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.
• For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
• Because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
• For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father."
• The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
• Now if we are children, then we are heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ.
• If indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
• I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
• The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
• For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it.
• In hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
• We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
• Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
• For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?
• But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
• In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
• And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.
• And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
• For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
• What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
• He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us allow will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
• Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
• Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died more than that, who was raised to life is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
• Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
• As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
• No, in all these things we are more than conqueroathrough him who loved us.
• For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers.
• Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Daily Prayer: 2014-12-08

Father of life, I know I cannot hold youth. I may have prosperity or poverty. I thank thee that thou hast taught me that love may be kept changeless through all. Amen.  

Daily Prayer: 2014-12-07

Gracious Father, may my heart be mindful of thee, that I may discover the truth and possess it. Steady me in my affections and save me from wandering impulses; and may I help to put wrong down and uplift humanity. Amen.  

Daily Prayer: 2014-12-06

Heavenly Father, I would be thankful for the blessings I am inclined to forget. Give me a heart of gratitude, and forbid that I should hold my friends for material gain or selfish ends. May I through the truthfulness of my lips, and the honor of my acts, be a necessary friend. Amen.  

Today Bible Words

Today Bible Words

John 8 :1-20

• But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
• At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
• The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group
• And said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
• In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?"
• They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
• When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
• Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
• At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.
• Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
• "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
• When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
• The Pharisees challenged him, "Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid."
• Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going.
• But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.
• You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one.
• But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.
• In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
• I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me."
• Then they asked him, "Where is your father?" "You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
• He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.

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Daily Prayer: 2014-12-05

My Father, as I pause this day to think of the brave men and women who have given their lives for the sake of others, may I be thankful for them. May I remember that noble deeds and kind words  never lost, but that self may block the way to justice. O Father, make war to cease! and lead us to victories that are won through peace. Amen.