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"Better not to vow than to vow and not pay."   God bless you.

Hebrews 3:1-19 (Good News Translation)   1My Christian friends, who also have been called by God! Think of Jesus, whom God sent to be the High Priest of the faith we profess.           2He was faithful to God, who chose him to do this work, just as Moses was faithful in his work in God's house.           3A man who builds a house receives more honor than the house itself. In the same way Jesus is worthy of much greater honor than Moses.           4Every house, of course, is built by someone—and God is the one who has built all things.           5Moses was faithful in God's house as a servant, and he spoke of the things that God would say in the future.           6But Christ is faithful as the Son in charge of God's house. We are his house if we keep up our courage and our confidence in what we hope for.           7So then, as the Holy Spirit says,                           If you hear God's voice today,               8do not be stubborn, as your ancestors were when ...

Hebrews 2:1-18 (Good News Translation) 1That is why we must hold on all the more firmly to the truths we have heard, so that we will not be carried away.           2The message given to our ancestors by the angels was shown to be true, and those who did not follow it or obey it received the punishment they deserved.           3How, then, shall we escape if we pay no attention to such a great salvation? The Lord himself first announced this salvation, and those who heard him proved to us that it is true.           4At the same time God added his witness to theirs by performing all kinds of miracles and wonders and by distributing the gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his will.           5God has not placed the angels as rulers over the new world to come—the world of which we speak.           6Instead, as it is said somewhere in the Scriptures:                           What are human beings, O God, that you should think of them;             mere human bein...

Hebrews 1: 1-14 (Good News Translation)   1In the past God spoke to our ancestors many times and in many ways through the prophets,           2but in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son. He is the one through whom God created the universe, the one whom God has chosen to possess all things at the end.           3He reflects the brightness of God's glory and is the exact likeness of God's own being, sustaining the universe with his powerful word. After achieving forgiveness for the sins of all human beings, he sat down in heaven at the right side of God, the Supreme Power.           4The Son was made greater than the angels, just as the name that God gave him is greater than theirs.           5For God never said to any of his angels,                           You are my Son;             today I have become your Father.          Nor did God say about any angel,                           I will be his Father,             and he will be my Son.           6But wh...

"Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law." God bless you.

John 1:19-51 (Good News Translation) 19The Jewish authorities in Jerusalem sent some priests and Levites to John to ask him,          Who are you?           20John did not refuse to answer, but spoke out openly and clearly, saying:          I am not the Messiah. 21Who are you, then? they asked.          Are you Elijah? No, I am not, John answered. Are you the Prophet?           they asked. No, he replied.           22Then tell us who you are, they said.          We have to take an answer back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself           23John answered by quoting the prophet Isaiah:                           I am              the voice of someone shouting in the desert:             Make a straight path for the Lord to travel!               24The messengers, who had been sent by the Pharisees,           25then           asked John,          If you are not the Messiah nor Elijah nor the Prophet, why do you baptize?         ...

John 5:1-30 (Good News Translation) 1After this, Jesus went to Jerusalem for a religious festival.           2Near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool           with five porches; in Hebrew it is called Bethzatha.           3A large crowd of sick people were lying on the porches—the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed.           5A man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.           6Jesus saw him lying there, and he knew that the man had been sick for such a long time; so he asked him,          Do you want to get well?           7The sick man answered,          Sir, I don't have anyone here to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up; while I am trying to get in, somebody else gets there first.           8Jesus said to him,          Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.           9Immediately the man got well; he picked up his mat and started walking.          The day this happened was a Sabbath,           10so the Jewis...