We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.

But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich oppressing you and dragging you into the courts?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

And similarly, was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another way?

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed – not by perishable things like silver or gold,

Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.

Let your beauty not be external – the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes –

for no prophecy was ever borne of human impulse; rather, men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,

yet even angels, who are much more powerful, do not bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord.

The one who loves his fellow Christian resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are living according to the truth.

I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us.

I have many things to write to you, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink.

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

They will never go hungry or be thirsty again, and the sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat,