John 6:66

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.

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

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

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.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

“ ‘Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.

You shall not make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

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

But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

“ ‘These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”

But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.