For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

From James, a slave of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes dispersed abroad. Greetings!

You believe that God is one; well and good. Even the demons believe that – and tremble with fear.

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.

that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

who then testified to everything that he saw concerning the word of God and the testimony about Jesus Christ.

Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

Then I heard the altar reply, “Yes, Lord God, the All-Powerful, your judgments are true and just!”

because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.

The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil.”

When God saw their actions – they turned from their evil way of living! – God relented concerning the judgment he had threatened them with and he did not destroy them.

Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.

For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.