Exodus 19:5-6 Now therefore, if You will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then You shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine; and You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the...
1 Peter 2:9-10 But You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that You may proclaim the excellence of Him who called You out of darkness into His marvelous light. In the past, You were not a people, but...
2 John 1:1-6 The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth, for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever: Grace, mercy, and peace will be with...
1 Corinthians 1:10-17 Now I beg You, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that You all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among You, but that You be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment. For it has been...
1 Corinthians 11:17-22 But in giving You this command, I don’t praise You, that You come together not for the better but for the worse. For first of all, when You come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among You, and I partly believe it. For...
1 Corinthians 11:2-6 Now I praise You, brothers, that You remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to You. But I would have You know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head...
1 Corinthians 5:1-5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among You, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has His father’s wife. You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that He who had done this...
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 I wrote to You in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then You would have to leave the world. But as...
1 Peter 2:11-17 Beloved, I beg You as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against You as evildoers, they may by Your good works, which...
1 Timothy 2:8-15 I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting. In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold,...
1 Timothy 3:1-7 This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work. The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; not a drinker, not...
1 Timothy 3:8-13 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are...
2 Timothy 2:20-26 Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor. If anyone therefore purges Himself from these, He will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and...
3 John 1:8 We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
Acts 15:22-29 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers. They wrote...
Acts 5:1-11 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, His wife, sold a possession, and kept back part of the price, His wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has...
Acts 6:1-7 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples...
Deuteronomy 12:29-32 When Yahweh Your God cuts off the nations from before You where You go in to dispossess them, and You dispossess them and dwell in their land, be careful that You are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before You,...
Deuteronomy 13:6-11 If Your brother, the son of Your mother, or Your son, or Your daughter, or the wife of Your bosom, or Your friend who is as Your own soul, entices You secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which You have not known, You, nor...
Deuteronomy 14:1-2 You are the children of Yahweh Your God. You shall not cut Yourselves, nor make any baldness between Your eyes for the dead. For You are a holy people to Yahweh Your God, and Yahweh has chosen You to be a people for His own possession,...
Deuteronomy 14:3-21 You shall not eat any abominable thing. These are the animals which You may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy 16:21-17:1 You shall not plant for Yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside Yahweh Your God’s altar, which You shall make for Yourselves. Neither shall You set Yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh Your God hates. You shall not sacrifice to...
Deuteronomy 17:2-7 If there is found among You, within any of Your gates which Yahweh Your God gives You, a man or woman who does that which is evil in Yahweh Your God’s sight in transgressing His covenant, and has gone and served other gods and worshiped...
Deuteronomy 24:10-13 When You lend Your neighbor any kind of loan, You shall not go into His house to get His pledge. You shall stand outside, and the man to whom You lend shall bring the pledge outside to You. If He is a poor man, You shall not sleep with His...