CRS Religion Relating to Self

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge."

send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

He went up into the mountain, and called to himself those whom he wanted, and they went to him.

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

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.

This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

They asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

They said therefore to him, "Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"

In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"

You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.

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

One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

When therefore they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing near to the boat; and they were afraid.

They were willing therefore to receive him into the boat. Immediately the boat was at the land where they were going.

The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"

The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having never been educated?"

Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn't yet glorified.

they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.

Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such. What then do you say about her?"

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

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.

Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."

The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from."

Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."

I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let's go to him."

The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation."

Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus.

You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for so I am.

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me."

Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"

They said therefore, "What is this that he says, 'A little while?' We don't know what he is saying."

His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.

Now we know that you know all things, and don't need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came forth from God."

Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;

The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching.

Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

Pilate therefore said to him, "Are you a king then?" Jesus answered, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice."

Then they all shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

Then because of the Jews' Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"

This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say."

As he talked with him, he went in and found many gathered together.

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins."

They of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.

"Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"

He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John whose surname was Mark.

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,

said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" He leaped up and walked.

But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.

Barnabas planned to take John, who was called Mark, with them also.

but Paul chose Silas, and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.

The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.

They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."

They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

When they asked him to stay with them a longer time, he declined;

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

Paul went down, and fell upon him, and embracing him said, "Don't be troubled, for his life is in him."

They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.

When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard, and came to Mitylene.

From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the elders of the assembly.

They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

On the next day, we, who were Paul's companions, departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

Therefore do what we tell you. We have four men who have taken a vow.

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.'

One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

came to me, and standing by me said to me, 'Brother Saul, receive your sight!' In that very hour I looked up at him.

He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'

I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, "Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you."

"Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

"Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,

Paul said, "I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me this day, might become such as I am, except for these bonds."

Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea; Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against."

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);

But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

So we urged Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.

For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies.

Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

I beg you, brothers, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong,

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.