1 Timothy 1:5 The whole point of what we’re urging is simply love—love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God. Those who fail to keep to...

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逐节对照

The Message - The whole point of what we’re urging is simply love—love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God. Those who fail to keep to this point soon wander off into dead ends of gossip. They set themselves up as experts on religious issues, but haven’t the remotest idea of what they’re holding forth with such imposing eloquence.
新标点和合本 - 但命令的总归就是爱；这爱是从清洁的心和无亏的良心，无伪的信心生出来的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 但命令的目的就是爱；这爱是出于清洁的心、无愧的良心和无伪的信心。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 但命令的目的就是爱；这爱是出于清洁的心、无愧的良心和无伪的信心。
当代译本 - 这命令的目的是为了爱，这爱来自于清洁的心、无愧的良心和真实无伪的信心。
圣经新译本 - 这嘱咐的目的是出于爱；这爱是发自纯洁的心、无愧的良心和无伪的信心。
中文标准译本 - 这样吩咐的目的是爱。爱是发自洁净的心、无愧的良心，以及不虚假的信仰。
现代标点和合本 - 但命令的总归就是爱，这爱是从清洁的心和无亏的良心、无伪的信心生出来的。
和合本（拼音版） - 但命令的总归就是爱，这爱是从清洁的心和无亏的良心、无伪的信心生出来的。
New International Version - The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
New International Reader's Version - Love is the purpose of my command. Love comes from a pure heart. It comes from a good sense of what is right and wrong. It comes from faith that is honest and true.
English Standard Version - The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
New Living Translation - The purpose of my instruction is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith.
Christian Standard Bible - Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
New American Standard Bible - But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.
New King James Version - Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,
Amplified Bible - But the goal of our instruction is love [which springs] from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
American Standard Version - But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
King James Version - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
New English Translation - But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
World English Bible - but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
新標點和合本 - 但命令的總歸就是愛；這愛是從清潔的心和無虧的良心，無偽的信心生出來的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 但命令的目的就是愛；這愛是出於清潔的心、無愧的良心和無偽的信心。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 但命令的目的就是愛；這愛是出於清潔的心、無愧的良心和無偽的信心。
當代譯本 - 這命令的目的是為了愛，這愛來自於清潔的心、無愧的良心和真實無偽的信心。
聖經新譯本 - 這囑咐的目的是出於愛；這愛是發自純潔的心、無愧的良心和無偽的信心。
呂振中譯本 - 這囑咐的終極乃是愛，從潔淨的心和純善的良知、跟無偽的信心所發生的。
中文標準譯本 - 這樣吩咐的目的是愛。愛是發自潔淨的心、無愧的良心，以及不虛假的信仰。
現代標點和合本 - 但命令的總歸就是愛，這愛是從清潔的心和無虧的良心、無偽的信心生出來的。
文理和合譯本 - 夫警戒之大旨乃愛、由於清潔之心、懿美之良、無偽之信、
文理委辦譯本 - 誡命大旨、仁愛是也、仁愛之生、由乎心潔意良、信主無偽、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 誡命之大旨、愛是也、由清心善意及無偽之信所生、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 夫所當勸告於人者、一言以蔽之、亦曰以光明之心地、純潔之天良無妄之信德、存養愛德而已矣。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Debes hacerlo así para que el amor brote de un corazón limpio, de una buena conciencia y de una fe sincera.
현대인의 성경 - 그러나 나의 부탁은 성도들이 깨끗한 마음과 선한 양심과 거짓이 없는 믿음에서 나오는 사랑으로 생활하게 하라는 것입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Цель этого требования – любовь, которая исходит из чистого сердца, доброй совести и искренней веры.
Восточный перевод - Цель этого требования – любовь, которая исходит из чистого сердца, доброй совести и искренней веры.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Цель этого требования – любовь, которая исходит из чистого сердца, доброй совести и искренней веры.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Цель этого требования – любовь, которая исходит из чистого сердца, доброй совести и искренней веры.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Le but de cet avertissement est d’éveiller l’amour, un amour venant d’un cœur pur, d’une bonne conscience et d’une foi sincère.
リビングバイブル - 私がひたすら願い求めるのは、すべてのクリスチャンが純粋な愛の心を持ち、その思いがきよめられ、信仰が強められることです。
Nestle Aland 28 - τὸ δὲ τέλος τῆς παραγγελίας ἐστὶν ἀγάπη ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας καὶ συνειδήσεως ἀγαθῆς καὶ πίστεως ἀνυποκρίτου,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τὸ δὲ τέλος τῆς παραγγελίας ἐστὶν ἀγάπη ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας, καὶ συνειδήσεως ἀγαθῆς, καὶ πίστεως ἀνυποκρίτου;
Nova Versão Internacional - O objetivo desta instrução é o amor que procede de um coração puro, de uma boa consciência e de uma fé sincera.
Hoffnung für alle - Die Unterweisung in der Lehre unseres Glaubens hat nur das eine Ziel: die Liebe, die aus einem reinen Herzen, einem guten Gewissen und einem aufrichtigen Glauben kommt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Mục đích chức vụ con là gây dựng tình thương bắt nguồn từ tấm lòng thánh khiết, lương tâm trong sạch và đức tin chân thật.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เป้าหมายของการกำชับนี้คือความรักอันมาจากใจบริสุทธิ์ จากจิตสำนึกที่ดีและจากความเชื่ออย่างจริงใจ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่จุดประสงค์ของการกำชับของเราคือ ความรัก ซึ่งเกิดขึ้นจากใจอันบริสุทธิ์ จากมโนธรรมที่ดี และความเชื่ออันจริงใจ

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1 Corinthians 8:1 - The question keeps coming up regarding meat that has been offered up to an idol: Should you attend meals where such meat is served, or not? We sometimes tend to think we know all we need to know to answer these kinds of questions—but sometimes our humble hearts can help us more than our proud minds. We never really know enough until we recognize that God alone knows it all.
Hebrews 11:5 - By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.” It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
1 Corinthians 13:1 - If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
Hebrews 13:18 - Pray for us. We have no doubts about what we’re doing or why, but it’s hard going and we need your prayers. All we care about is living well before God. Pray that we may be together soon. May God, who puts all things together, makes all things whole, Who made a lasting mark through the sacrifice of Jesus, the sacrifice of blood that sealed the eternal covenant, Who led Jesus, our Great Shepherd, up and alive from the dead, Now put you together, provide you with everything you need to please him, Make us into what gives him most pleasure, by means of the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah. All glory to Jesus forever and always! Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Romans 9:1 - At the same time, you need to know that I carry with me at all times a huge sorrow. It’s an enormous pain deep within me, and I’m never free of it. I’m not exaggerating—Christ and the Holy Spirit are my witnesses. It’s the Israelites . . . If there were any way I could be cursed by the Messiah so they could be blessed by him, I’d do it in a minute. They’re my family. I grew up with them. They had everything going for them—family, glory, covenants, revelation, worship, promises, to say nothing of being the race that produced the Messiah, the Christ, who is God over everything, always. Oh, yes!
Hebrews 10:22 - So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.
Romans 14:15 - If you confuse others by making a big issue over what they eat or don’t eat, you’re no longer a companion with them in love, are you? These, remember, are persons for whom Christ died. Would you risk sending them to hell over an item in their diet? Don’t you dare let a piece of God-blessed food become an occasion of soul-poisoning!
Acts 23:1 - Paul surveyed the members of the council with a steady gaze, and then said his piece: “Friends, I’ve lived with a clear conscience before God all my life, up to this very moment.” That set the Chief Priest Ananias off. He ordered his aides to slap Paul in the face. Paul shot back, “God will slap you down! What a fake you are! You sit there and judge me by the Law and then break the Law by ordering me slapped around!”
Romans 13:8 - Don’t run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don’t sleep with another person’s spouse, don’t take someone’s life, don’t take what isn’t yours, don’t always be wanting what you don’t have, and any other “don’t” you can think of—finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can’t go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.
1 Peter 1:22 - Now that you’ve cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God’s living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself! That’s why the prophet said, The old life is a grass life, its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers; Grass dries up, flowers wilt, God’s Word goes on and on forever. This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.
Romans 10:4 - The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
Matthew 5:8 - “You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.
2 Corinthians 1:12 - Now that the worst is over, we’re pleased we can report that we’ve come out of this with conscience and faith intact, and can face the world—and even more importantly, face you with our heads held high. But it wasn’t by any fancy footwork on our part. It was God who kept us focused on him, uncompromised. Don’t try to read between the lines or look for hidden meanings in this letter. We’re writing plain, unembellished truth, hoping that you’ll now see the whole picture as well as you’ve seen some of the details. We want you to be as proud of us as we are of you when we stand together before our Master Jesus.
Acts 24:16 - “Believe me, I do my level best to keep a clear conscience before God and my neighbors in everything I do. I’ve been out of the country for a number of years and now I’m back. While I was away, I took up a collection for the poor and brought that with me, along with offerings for the Temple. It was while making those offerings that they found me quietly at my prayers in the Temple. There was no crowd, there was no disturbance. It was some Jews from around Ephesus who started all this trouble. And you’ll notice they’re not here today. They’re cowards, too cowardly to accuse me in front of you.
Mark 12:28 - One of the religion scholars came up. Hearing the lively exchanges of question and answer and seeing how sharp Jesus was in his answers, he put in his question: “Which is most important of all the commandments?”
Mark 12:29 - Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’ And here is the second: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment that ranks with these.”
Mark 12:32 - The religion scholar said, “A wonderful answer, Teacher! So clear-cut and accurate—that God is one and there is no other. And loving him with all passion and intelligence and energy, and loving others as well as you love yourself. Why, that’s better than all offerings and sacrifices put together!”
Mark 12:34 - When Jesus realized how insightful he was, he said, “You’re almost there, right on the border of God’s kingdom.” After that, no one else dared ask a question. * * *
1 John 4:7 - My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.
1 John 4:11 - My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!
1 John 4:13 - This is how we know we’re living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He’s given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit. Also, we’ve seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world. Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God’s Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God. We know it so well, we’ve embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God.
2 Timothy 1:3 - Every time I say your name in prayer—which is practically all the time—I thank God for you, the God I worship with my whole life in the tradition of my ancestors. I miss you a lot, especially when I remember that last tearful good-bye, and I look forward to a joy-packed reunion.
2 Timothy 2:22 - Run away from childish indulgence. Run after mature righteousness—faith, love, peace—joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God. Refuse to get involved in inane discussions; they always end up in fights. God’s servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth, enabling them to escape the Devil’s trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run his errands.
Galatians 5:13 - It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
2 Timothy 1:5 - That precious memory triggers another: your honest faith—and what a rich faith it is, handed down from your grandmother Lois to your mother Eunice, and now to you! And the special gift of ministry you received when I laid hands on you and prayed—keep that ablaze! God doesn’t want us to be shy with his gifts, but bold and loving and sensible.
Galatians 5:22 - But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
1 Timothy 1:19 - There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith. Hymenaeus and Alexander are two of them. I let them wander off to Satan to be taught a lesson or two about not blaspheming.

逐节对照

交叉引用

The Message - The whole point of what we’re urging is simply love—love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God. Those who fail to keep to this point soon wander off into dead ends of gossip. They set themselves up as experts on religious issues, but haven’t the remotest idea of what they’re holding forth with such imposing eloquence.
新标点和合本 - 但命令的总归就是爱；这爱是从清洁的心和无亏的良心，无伪的信心生出来的。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 但命令的目的就是爱；这爱是出于清洁的心、无愧的良心和无伪的信心。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 但命令的目的就是爱；这爱是出于清洁的心、无愧的良心和无伪的信心。
当代译本 - 这命令的目的是为了爱，这爱来自于清洁的心、无愧的良心和真实无伪的信心。
圣经新译本 - 这嘱咐的目的是出于爱；这爱是发自纯洁的心、无愧的良心和无伪的信心。
中文标准译本 - 这样吩咐的目的是爱。爱是发自洁净的心、无愧的良心，以及不虚假的信仰。
现代标点和合本 - 但命令的总归就是爱，这爱是从清洁的心和无亏的良心、无伪的信心生出来的。
和合本（拼音版） - 但命令的总归就是爱，这爱是从清洁的心和无亏的良心、无伪的信心生出来的。
New International Version - The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
New International Reader's Version - Love is the purpose of my command. Love comes from a pure heart. It comes from a good sense of what is right and wrong. It comes from faith that is honest and true.
English Standard Version - The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
New Living Translation - The purpose of my instruction is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith.
Christian Standard Bible - Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
New American Standard Bible - But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.
New King James Version - Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,
Amplified Bible - But the goal of our instruction is love [which springs] from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
American Standard Version - But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
King James Version - Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
New English Translation - But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
World English Bible - but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
新標點和合本 - 但命令的總歸就是愛；這愛是從清潔的心和無虧的良心，無偽的信心生出來的。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 但命令的目的就是愛；這愛是出於清潔的心、無愧的良心和無偽的信心。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 但命令的目的就是愛；這愛是出於清潔的心、無愧的良心和無偽的信心。
當代譯本 - 這命令的目的是為了愛，這愛來自於清潔的心、無愧的良心和真實無偽的信心。
聖經新譯本 - 這囑咐的目的是出於愛；這愛是發自純潔的心、無愧的良心和無偽的信心。
呂振中譯本 - 這囑咐的終極乃是愛，從潔淨的心和純善的良知、跟無偽的信心所發生的。
中文標準譯本 - 這樣吩咐的目的是愛。愛是發自潔淨的心、無愧的良心，以及不虛假的信仰。
現代標點和合本 - 但命令的總歸就是愛，這愛是從清潔的心和無虧的良心、無偽的信心生出來的。
文理和合譯本 - 夫警戒之大旨乃愛、由於清潔之心、懿美之良、無偽之信、
文理委辦譯本 - 誡命大旨、仁愛是也、仁愛之生、由乎心潔意良、信主無偽、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 誡命之大旨、愛是也、由清心善意及無偽之信所生、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 夫所當勸告於人者、一言以蔽之、亦曰以光明之心地、純潔之天良無妄之信德、存養愛德而已矣。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Debes hacerlo así para que el amor brote de un corazón limpio, de una buena conciencia y de una fe sincera.
현대인의 성경 - 그러나 나의 부탁은 성도들이 깨끗한 마음과 선한 양심과 거짓이 없는 믿음에서 나오는 사랑으로 생활하게 하라는 것입니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Цель этого требования – любовь, которая исходит из чистого сердца, доброй совести и искренней веры.
Восточный перевод - Цель этого требования – любовь, которая исходит из чистого сердца, доброй совести и искренней веры.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Цель этого требования – любовь, которая исходит из чистого сердца, доброй совести и искренней веры.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Цель этого требования – любовь, которая исходит из чистого сердца, доброй совести и искренней веры.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Le but de cet avertissement est d’éveiller l’amour, un amour venant d’un cœur pur, d’une bonne conscience et d’une foi sincère.
リビングバイブル - 私がひたすら願い求めるのは、すべてのクリスチャンが純粋な愛の心を持ち、その思いがきよめられ、信仰が強められることです。
Nestle Aland 28 - τὸ δὲ τέλος τῆς παραγγελίας ἐστὶν ἀγάπη ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας καὶ συνειδήσεως ἀγαθῆς καὶ πίστεως ἀνυποκρίτου,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - τὸ δὲ τέλος τῆς παραγγελίας ἐστὶν ἀγάπη ἐκ καθαρᾶς καρδίας, καὶ συνειδήσεως ἀγαθῆς, καὶ πίστεως ἀνυποκρίτου;
Nova Versão Internacional - O objetivo desta instrução é o amor que procede de um coração puro, de uma boa consciência e de uma fé sincera.
Hoffnung für alle - Die Unterweisung in der Lehre unseres Glaubens hat nur das eine Ziel: die Liebe, die aus einem reinen Herzen, einem guten Gewissen und einem aufrichtigen Glauben kommt.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Mục đích chức vụ con là gây dựng tình thương bắt nguồn từ tấm lòng thánh khiết, lương tâm trong sạch và đức tin chân thật.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เป้าหมายของการกำชับนี้คือความรักอันมาจากใจบริสุทธิ์ จากจิตสำนึกที่ดีและจากความเชื่ออย่างจริงใจ
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่จุดประสงค์ของการกำชับของเราคือ ความรัก ซึ่งเกิดขึ้นจากใจอันบริสุทธิ์ จากมโนธรรมที่ดี และความเชื่ออันจริงใจ

1 Corinthians 8:1 - The question keeps coming up regarding meat that has been offered up to an idol: Should you attend meals where such meat is served, or not? We sometimes tend to think we know all we need to know to answer these kinds of questions—but sometimes our humble hearts can help us more than our proud minds. We never really know enough until we recognize that God alone knows it all.
Hebrews 11:5 - By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.” It’s impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
1 Corinthians 13:1 - If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
Hebrews 13:18 - Pray for us. We have no doubts about what we’re doing or why, but it’s hard going and we need your prayers. All we care about is living well before God. Pray that we may be together soon. May God, who puts all things together, makes all things whole, Who made a lasting mark through the sacrifice of Jesus, the sacrifice of blood that sealed the eternal covenant, Who led Jesus, our Great Shepherd, up and alive from the dead, Now put you together, provide you with everything you need to please him, Make us into what gives him most pleasure, by means of the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah. All glory to Jesus forever and always! Oh, yes, yes, yes.
Romans 9:1 - At the same time, you need to know that I carry with me at all times a huge sorrow. It’s an enormous pain deep within me, and I’m never free of it. I’m not exaggerating—Christ and the Holy Spirit are my witnesses. It’s the Israelites . . . If there were any way I could be cursed by the Messiah so they could be blessed by him, I’d do it in a minute. They’re my family. I grew up with them. They had everything going for them—family, glory, covenants, revelation, worship, promises, to say nothing of being the race that produced the Messiah, the Christ, who is God over everything, always. Oh, yes!
Hebrews 10:22 - So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.
Romans 14:15 - If you confuse others by making a big issue over what they eat or don’t eat, you’re no longer a companion with them in love, are you? These, remember, are persons for whom Christ died. Would you risk sending them to hell over an item in their diet? Don’t you dare let a piece of God-blessed food become an occasion of soul-poisoning!
Acts 23:1 - Paul surveyed the members of the council with a steady gaze, and then said his piece: “Friends, I’ve lived with a clear conscience before God all my life, up to this very moment.” That set the Chief Priest Ananias off. He ordered his aides to slap Paul in the face. Paul shot back, “God will slap you down! What a fake you are! You sit there and judge me by the Law and then break the Law by ordering me slapped around!”
Romans 13:8 - Don’t run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don’t sleep with another person’s spouse, don’t take someone’s life, don’t take what isn’t yours, don’t always be wanting what you don’t have, and any other “don’t” you can think of—finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can’t go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.
1 Peter 1:22 - Now that you’ve cleaned up your lives by following the truth, love one another as if your lives depended on it. Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God’s living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself! That’s why the prophet said, The old life is a grass life, its beauty as short-lived as wildflowers; Grass dries up, flowers wilt, God’s Word goes on and on forever. This is the Word that conceived the new life in you.
Romans 10:4 - The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it. Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest. It’s the word of faith that welcomes God to go to work and set things right for us. This is the core of our preaching. Say the welcoming word to God—“Jesus is my Master”—embracing, body and soul, God’s work of doing in us what he did in raising Jesus from the dead. That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
Matthew 5:8 - “You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.
2 Corinthians 1:12 - Now that the worst is over, we’re pleased we can report that we’ve come out of this with conscience and faith intact, and can face the world—and even more importantly, face you with our heads held high. But it wasn’t by any fancy footwork on our part. It was God who kept us focused on him, uncompromised. Don’t try to read between the lines or look for hidden meanings in this letter. We’re writing plain, unembellished truth, hoping that you’ll now see the whole picture as well as you’ve seen some of the details. We want you to be as proud of us as we are of you when we stand together before our Master Jesus.
Acts 24:16 - “Believe me, I do my level best to keep a clear conscience before God and my neighbors in everything I do. I’ve been out of the country for a number of years and now I’m back. While I was away, I took up a collection for the poor and brought that with me, along with offerings for the Temple. It was while making those offerings that they found me quietly at my prayers in the Temple. There was no crowd, there was no disturbance. It was some Jews from around Ephesus who started all this trouble. And you’ll notice they’re not here today. They’re cowards, too cowardly to accuse me in front of you.
Mark 12:28 - One of the religion scholars came up. Hearing the lively exchanges of question and answer and seeing how sharp Jesus was in his answers, he put in his question: “Which is most important of all the commandments?”
Mark 12:29 - Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’ And here is the second: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment that ranks with these.”
Mark 12:32 - The religion scholar said, “A wonderful answer, Teacher! So clear-cut and accurate—that God is one and there is no other. And loving him with all passion and intelligence and energy, and loving others as well as you love yourself. Why, that’s better than all offerings and sacrifices put together!”
Mark 12:34 - When Jesus realized how insightful he was, he said, “You’re almost there, right on the border of God’s kingdom.” After that, no one else dared ask a question. * * *
1 John 4:7 - My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God.
1 John 4:11 - My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!
1 John 4:13 - This is how we know we’re living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He’s given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit. Also, we’ve seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world. Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God’s Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God. We know it so well, we’ve embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God.
2 Timothy 1:3 - Every time I say your name in prayer—which is practically all the time—I thank God for you, the God I worship with my whole life in the tradition of my ancestors. I miss you a lot, especially when I remember that last tearful good-bye, and I look forward to a joy-packed reunion.
2 Timothy 2:22 - Run away from childish indulgence. Run after mature righteousness—faith, love, peace—joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God. Refuse to get involved in inane discussions; they always end up in fights. God’s servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth, enabling them to escape the Devil’s trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run his errands.
Galatians 5:13 - It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. For everything we know about God’s Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That’s an act of true freedom. If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
2 Timothy 1:5 - That precious memory triggers another: your honest faith—and what a rich faith it is, handed down from your grandmother Lois to your mother Eunice, and now to you! And the special gift of ministry you received when I laid hands on you and prayed—keep that ablaze! God doesn’t want us to be shy with his gifts, but bold and loving and sensible.
Galatians 5:22 - But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.
1 Timothy 1:19 - There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith. Hymenaeus and Alexander are two of them. I let them wander off to Satan to be taught a lesson or two about not blaspheming.