1 Timothy 2:15

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For there is born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

Behold, you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son, and shall name him ‘Jesus.’

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

and don’t give place to the devil.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through. It will reach even to the neck. The stretching out of its wings will fill the width of your land, Immanuel.

This also comes out from Yahweh of Armies, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety, not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”

She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.