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"And Jesus answered and said to him, 'It is said, You shall not put the LORD your God to the test.'"   God bless you.

"The Spirit and the bride say, 'Come.' And let the one who hears say, 'Come.' And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost."   God bless you.

Acts 5:17-42 (Good News Translation)  17Then the High Priest and all his companions, members of the local party of the Sadducees, became extremely jealous of the apostles; so they decided to take action.           18They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.           19But that night an angel of the Lord opened the prison gates, led the apostles out, and said to them,           20"Go and stand in the Temple, and tell the people all about this new life."           21The apostles obeyed, and at dawn they entered the Temple and started teaching.          The High Priest and his companions called together all the Jewish elders for a full meeting of the Council; then they sent orders to the prison to have the apostles brought before them.           22But when the officials arrived, they did not find the apostles in prison, so they returned to the Council and reported,           23"When we arrived at the jail, we found it locked up tight and all the guar...

Acts 5:1-16 (Good News Translation)  1But there was a man named Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira sold some property that belonged to them.           2But with his wife's agreement he kept part of the money for himself and turned the rest over to the apostles.           3Peter said to him,          Ananias, why did you let Satan take control of you and make you lie to the Holy Spirit by keeping part of the money you received for the property?           4Before you sold the property, it belonged to you; and after you sold it, the money was yours. Why, then, did you decide to do such a thing? You have not lied to people—you have lied to God!           5As soon as Ananias heard this, he fell down dead; and all who heard about it were terrified.           6The young men came in, wrapped up his body, carried him out, and buried him.           7About three hours later his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.           8Peter asked her,          "Tell me, was this the...

"These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren."   God bless you.

Acts 4:23-37 (Good News Translation)  23As soon as Peter and John were set free, they returned to their group and told them what the chief priests and the elders had said.           24When the believers heard it, they all joined together in prayer to God:          Master and Creator of heaven, earth, and sea, and all that is in them!           25By means of the Holy Spirit you spoke through our ancestor David, your servant, when he said,                           Why were the Gentiles furious;             why did people make their useless plots?               26The kings of the earth prepared themselves,             and the rulers met together             against the Lord and his Messiah.           27For indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together in this city with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Jesus, your holy Servant, whom you made Messiah.           28They gathered to do everything that you by your power and will had already decided would happen.           29An...

Acts 4:1-22 (Good News Translation)  1Peter and John were still speaking to the people when some priests,           the officer in charge of the Temple guards, and some Sadducees arrived.           2They were annoyed because the two apostles were teaching the people that Jesus had risen from death, which proved that the dead will rise to life.           3So they arrested them and put them in jail until the next day, since it was already late.           4But many who heard the message believed; and the number grew to about five thousand.           5The next day the Jewish leaders, the elders, and the teachers of the Law gathered in Jerusalem.           6They met with the High Priest Annas and with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the others who belonged to the High Priest's family.           7They made the apostles stand before them and asked them,          "How did you do this? What power do you have or whose name did you use?"           8Peter, full of the Holy Spirit...

Jesus said, "Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. Two women will be grinding at a mill; one will be taken and one will be left." God bless you.

"For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either."   God bless you.

Acts 3:11-26 (Good News Translation)  11As the man held on to Peter and John in Solomon's Porch, as it was called, the people were amazed and ran to them.           12When Peter saw the people, he said to them,          Fellow Israelites, why are you surprised at this, and why do you stare at us? Do you think that it was by means of our own power or godliness that we made this man walk?           13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has given divine glory to his Servant Jesus. But you handed him over to the authorities, and you rejected him in Pilate's presence, even after Pilate had decided to set him free.           14He was holy and good, but you rejected him, and instead you asked Pilate to do you the favor of turning loose a murderer.           15You killed the one who leads to life, but God raised him from death—and we are witnesses to this.           16It was the power of his name that gave strength to this lame man. What you see and kno...

"If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in contoversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain." God bless you.

"Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were compeleted; after these things he must be released for a short time."   God bless you.

"I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too an an Israelite, a decendent of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not trejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?"   God bless you.

Acts 3:1-10 (Good News Translation)  1One day Peter and John went to the Temple at three o'clock in the afternoon, the hour for prayer.           2There at the Beautiful Gate, as it was called, was a man who had been lame all his life. Every day he was carried to the gate to beg for money from the people who were going into the Temple.           3When he saw Peter and John going in, he begged them to give him something.           4They looked straight at him, and Peter said,          "Look at us!"           5So he looked at them, expecting to get something from them.           6But Peter said to him,          "I have no money at all, but I give you what I have: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I order you to get up and walk!"           7Then he took him by his right hand and helped him up. At once the man's feet and ankles became strong;           8he jumped up, stood on his feet, and started walking around. Then he went into the Temple with them...

"After he called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, 'Listen to Me, all of you, and understand: there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man."   God bless you.

"Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottemless pit was given to him. He opened the bottemless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit."   God bless you.

Acts 2:29-47 (Good News Translation) 29My friends, I must speak to you plainly about our famous ancestor King David. He died and was buried, and his grave is here with us to this very day.           30He was a prophet, and he knew what God had promised him: God had made a vow that he would make one of David's descendants a king, just as David was.           31David saw what God was going to do in the future, and so he spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah when he said,                           He was not abandoned in the world of the dead;             his body did not rot in the grave.               32God has raised this very Jesus from death, and we are all witnesses to this fact.           33He has been raised to the right side of God, his Father, and has received from him the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. What you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us.           34For it was not David who went up into heaven; rather he said,                    ...

"For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." God bless you.

Jesus said, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self indulgence." God bless you.

Acts 2:14-28 (Good News Translation)  14Then Peter stood up with the other eleven apostles and in a loud voice began to speak to the crowd:          Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, listen to me and let me tell you what this means.           15These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o'clock in the morning.           16Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:           17This is what I will do in the last days, God says:             I will pour out my Spirit on everyone.             Your sons and daughters will proclaim my message;             your young men will see visions,             and your old men will have dreams.               18Yes, even on my servants, both men and women,             I will pour out my Spirit in those days,             and they will proclaim my message.               19I will perform miracles in the sky above             and wonders on the earth below.             There will be blood, fire, and thick sm...

Acts 2:1-13 (Good News Translation) 1When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers were gathered together in one place.           2Suddenly there was a noise from the sky which sounded like a strong wind blowing, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.           3Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire which spread out and touched each person there.           4They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.           5There were Jews living in Jerusalem, religious people who had come from every country in the world.           6When they heard this noise, a large crowd gathered. They were all excited, because all of them heard the believers talking in their own languages.           7In amazement and wonder they exclaimed,          These people who are talking like this are Galileans!           8How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages?           9We a...

"The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You support my lot." God bless you.

"Jesus said to her, 'I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he dies, and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?'" God bless you.

"Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand." God bless you.

Ezekiel 36:16-38 (Good News Translation)  16The LORD spoke to me.             17"Mortal man," he said,            when the Israelites were living in their land, they defiled it by the way they lived and acted. I regarded their behavior as being as ritually unclean as a woman is during her monthly period.             18I let them feel the force of my anger because of the murders they had committed in the land and because of the idols by which they had defiled it.             19I condemned them for the way they lived and acted, and I scattered them through foreign countries.             20Wherever they went, they brought disgrace on my holy name, because people would say,            These are the people of the            LORD, but they had to leave his land.             21That made me concerned for my holy name, since the Israelites brought disgrace on it everywhere they went.             22Now then, give the Israelites the message that I, the Sovereign            LORD, ha...

Ezekiel 37:1-14 (Good News Translation)  1I felt the powerful presence of the            LORD, and his spirit took me and set me down in a valley where the ground was covered with bones.             2He led me all around the valley, and I could see that there were very many bones and that they were very dry.             3He said to me,            "Mortal man, can these bones come back to life?"            I replied,            Sovereign            LORD, only you can answer that!             4He said,            Prophesy to the bones. Tell these dry bones to listen to the word of the            LORD.             5Tell them that I, the Sovereign            LORD, am saying to them: I am going to put breath into you and bring you back to life.             6I will give you sinews and muscles, and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you and bring you back to life. Then you will know that I am the            LORD.             7So I prophesied as I had been told. While I...

Ezekiel 36:1-15 (Good News Translation)  1The LORD said,            Mortal man, speak to the mountains of Israel and tell them to listen to the message which I,             2the Sovereign            LORD, have for them: Israel's enemies gloated and said,            "Now those ancient hills are ours!"             3Prophesy, then, and announce what I, the Sovereign            LORD, am saying. When the neighboring nations captured and plundered the mountains of Israel, everyone made fun of Israel.             4So now listen to what I, the Sovereign            LORD, say to you mountains and hills, to you brooks and valleys, to you places that were left in ruins, and to you deserted cities which were plundered and mocked by all the surrounding nations.             5I, the Sovereign            LORD, have spoken out in the heat of my anger against the surrounding nations, and especially against Edom. With glee and contempt they captured my land and took possession of its pa...

Ezekiel 3:16-27 (Good News Translation) 16After the seven days had passed, the            LORD spoke to me.             17"Mortal man," he said,            I am making you a lookout for the nation of Israel. You will pass on to them the warnings I give you.             18If I announce that someone evil is going to die but you do not warn him to change his ways so that he can save his life, he will die, still a sinner, but I will hold you responsible for his death.             19If you do warn an evil man and he doesn't stop sinning, he will die, still a sinner, but your life will be spared.             20If someone truly good starts doing evil and I put him in a dangerous situation, he will die if you do not warn him. He will die because of his sins—I will not remember the good he did—and I will hold you responsible for his death.             21If you do warn a good man not to sin and he listens to you and doesn't sin, he will stay alive, and your life will also b...

Ezekiel 3:1-15 (Good News Translation) 1God said,            "Mortal man, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel."             2So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.             3He said,            "Mortal man, eat this scroll that I give you; fill your stomach with it." I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey.             4Then God said,            Mortal man, go to the people of Israel and say to them whatever I tell you to say.             5I am not sending you to a nation that speaks a difficult foreign language, but to the Israelites.             6If I sent you to great nations that spoke difficult languages you didn't understand, they would listen to you.             7But none of the people of Israel will be willing to listen; they will not even listen to me. All of them are stubborn and defiant.             8Now I will make you as stubborn and as tough as they are.             9I will make you as firm as a roc...

Ezekiel 2:1-10 (Good News Translation)  1saying,          "Mortal man, stand up. I want to talk to you."           2While the voice was speaking, God's spirit entered me and raised me to my feet, and I heard the voice continue,           3Mortal man, I am sending you to the people of Israel. They have rebelled and turned against me and are still rebels, just as their ancestors were.           4They are stubborn and do not respect me, so I am sending you to tell them what I, the Sovereign          LORD, am saying to them.           5Whether those rebels listen to you or not, they will know that a prophet has been among them.             6But you, mortal man, must not be afraid of them or of anything they say. They will defy and despise you; it will be like living among scorpions. Still, don't be afraid of those rebels or of anything they say.             7You will tell them whatever I tell you to say, whether they listen or not. Remember what rebels they are.     ...

Ezekiel 1:1-28 (Good News Translation) 1On the fifth day of the fourth month of the thirtieth year,             I, Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, was living with the Jewish exiles by the Chebar River in Babylonia. The sky opened, and I saw a vision of God. (             2It was the fifth year since King Jehoiachin had been taken into exile.)             3There in Babylonia beside the Chebar River, I heard the            LORD speak to me, and I felt his power.             4I looked up and saw a windstorm coming from the north. Lightning was flashing from a huge cloud, and the sky around it was glowing. Where the lightning was flashing, something shone like bronze.             5At the center of the storm I saw what looked like four living creatures in human form,             6but each of them had four faces and four wings.             7Their legs were straight, and they had hoofs like those of a bull. They shone like polished bronze.             8In addition to their four faces an...

John 16:16-33 (Good News Translation)           16"In a little while you will not see me any more, and then a little while later you will see me."           17Some of his disciples asked among themselves,          What does this mean? He tells us that in a little while we will not see him, and then a little while later we will see him; and he also says,          "It is because I am going to the Father."           18What does this          "a little while" mean? We don't know what he is talking about!           19Jesus knew that they wanted to question him, so he said to them,          I said,          "In a little while you will not see me, and then a little while later you will see me." Is this what you are asking about among yourselves?           20I am telling you the truth: you will cry and weep, but the world will be glad; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into gladness.           21When a woman is about to give birth, she...

Acts 1:1-11 (Good News Translation)           1Dear Theophilus:          In my first book I wrote about all the things that Jesus did and taught from the time he began his work           2until the day he was taken up to heaven. Before he was taken up, he gave instructions by the power of the Holy Spirit to the men he had chosen as his apostles.           3For forty days after his death he appeared to them many times in ways that proved beyond doubt that he was alive. They saw him, and he talked with them about the Kingdom of God.           4And when they came together,           he gave them this order:          Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift I told you about, the gift my Father promised.           5John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.           6When the apostles met together with Jesus, they asked him,          "Lord, will you at this time give the Kingdom back to Israel?"           7Jesus said to them, ...

"Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus." God bless you.

"After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree." God bless you.

John 16:1-15 (Good News Translation)      18If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first.           19If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you.           20Remember what I told you:          "Slaves are not greater than their master." If people persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.           21But they will do all this to you because you are mine; for they do not know the one who sent me.           22They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not come and spoken to them; as it is, they no longer have any excuse for their sin.           23Whoever hates me hates my Father also.           24They would not have been guilty of sin if I had not done among them the things that no one else ever did; as it is, they have seen what I did, and they hate both me and my Father. ...

"For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: Seek Me and live;..."   May God bless you and keep you. Amen.

John 14:15-31 (Good News Translation)           15If you love me, you will obey my commandments.           16I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, who will stay with you forever.           17He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth about God. The world cannot receive him, because it cannot see him or know him. But you know him, because he remains with you and is           in you.           18When I go, you will not be left all alone; I will come back to you.           19In a little while the world will see me no more, but you will see me; and because I live, you also will live.           20When that day comes, you will know that I am in my Father and that you are in me, just as I am in you.           21"Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. My Father will love those who love me; I too will love them and reveal myself to them."           22Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said,          "Lord, how can it be that you w...

John 15:1-17 (Good News Translation)       1I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener.           2He breaks off every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and he prunes every branch that does bear fruit, so that it will be clean and bear more fruit.           3You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you.           4Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do so only if it remains in the vine. In the same way you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me.           5I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me.           6Those who do not remain in me are thrown out like a branch and dry up; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, where they are burned.           7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have it.           8My ...

John 14:1-14 (Good News Translation) 1"Do not be worried and upset," Jesus told them.          Believe           in God and believe also in me.           2There are many rooms in my Father's house, and I am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so.           3And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am.           4You know the way that leads to the place where I am going.           5Thomas said to him,          "Lord, we do not know where you are going; so how can we know the way to get there?"           6Jesus answered him,          I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one goes to the Father except by me.           7Now that you have known me,           he said to them,          you will know           my Father also, and from now on you do know him and you have seen him.           8Philip said to him,          "Lord, show us the Father; t...

Psalm 80 (Good News Translation)  1Listen to us, O Shepherd of Israel;            hear us, leader of your flock.            Seated on your throne above the winged creatures,               2reveal yourself to the tribes of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh.            Show us your strength;            come and save us!               3Bring us back, O God!            Show us your mercy, and we will be saved!               4How much longer,              LORD God Almighty,            will you be angry with your people's prayers?               5You have given us sorrow to eat,            a large cup of tears to drink.               6You let the surrounding nations fight over our land;            our enemies insult us.               7Bring us back, Almighty God!            Show us your mercy, and we will be saved!               8You brought a grapevine out of Egypt;            you drove out other nations and planted it in their land.               9You cleared a place for it to grow; ...

Romans 14:1-23 (Good News Translation)           1Welcome those who are weak in faith, but do not argue with them about their personal opinions.           2Some people's faith allows them to eat anything, but the person who is weak in the faith eats only vegetables.           3The person who will eat anything is not to despise the one who doesn't; while the one who eats only vegetables is not to pass judgment on the one who will eat anything; for God has accepted that person.           4Who are you to judge the servants of someone else? It is their own Master who will decide whether they succeed or fail. And they will succeed, because the Lord is able to make them succeed.           5Some people think that a certain day is more important than other days, while others think that all days are the same. We each should firmly make up our own minds.           6Those who think highly of a certain day do so in honor of the Lord; those who will eat anything do so in honor of the Lo...

Romans 13:1-14 (Good News Translation)           1Everyone must obey state authorities, because no authority exists without God's permission, and the existing authorities have been put there by God.           2Whoever opposes the existing authority opposes what God has ordered; and anyone who does so will bring judgment on himself.           3For rulers are not to be feared by those who do good, but by those who do evil. Would you like to be unafraid of those in authority? Then do what is good, and they will praise you,           4because they are God's servants working for your own good. But if you do evil, then be afraid of them, because their power to punish is real. They are God's servants and carry out God's punishment on those who do evil.           5For this reason you must obey the authorities—not just because of God's punishment, but also as a matter of conscience.           6That is also why you pay taxes, because the authorities are working for God w...

Romans 12:1-21 (Good News Translation)   1So then, my friends, because of God's great mercy to us I appeal to you: Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer.           2Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God—what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.           3And because of God's gracious gift to me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you should. Instead, be modest in your thinking, and judge yourself according to the amount of faith that God has given you.           4We have many parts in the one body, and all these parts have different functions.           5In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are all joined to each other as different parts of one body. ...

Ephesians 6:10-24 (Good News Translation) 10Finally, build up your strength in union with the Lord and by means of his mighty power.           11Put on all the armor that God gives you, so that you will be able to stand up against the Devil's evil tricks.           12For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age.           13So put on God's armor now! Then when the evil day comes, you will be able to resist the enemy's attacks; and after fighting to the end, you will still hold your ground.           14So stand ready, with truth as a belt tight around your waist, with righteousness as your breastplate,           15and as your shoes the readiness to announce the Good News of peace.           16At all times carry faith as a shield; for with it you will be able to put out all the burning arrows shot by the Evil One.           17And accept salvation as ...