I also know that whatever God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it. God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others –

The one who eats everything must not despise the one who does not, and the one who abstains must not judge the one who eats everything, for God has accepted him.

“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

King Solomon then swore an oath by the Lord, “May God judge me severely, if Adonijah does not pay for this request with his life!

who shows no partiality to princes, and does not take note of the rich more than the poor, because all of them are the work of his hands?

How blessed is the one who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand in the pathway with sinners, or sit in the assembly of scoffers!

“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

For whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.”

For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.” (This means all foods are clean.)

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

five have fallen; one is, and the other has not yet come, but whenever he does come, he must remain for only a brief time.

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.