Mark 5:24-34After Jesus crossed over by boat, a large crowd met him at the seaside. One of the meeting-place leaders named Jairus came. When he saw Jesus, he fell to his knees, beside himself as he begged, “My dear daughter is at death’s door. Come and lay hands on her so she will get well and live.” Jesus went with him, the whole crowd tagging along, pushing and jostling him. A woman who had suff...  Read More

James 5:13-18Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.  Is anyone among you sick? He should call for the elders of the church, and they are to pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.  The prayer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up; if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.  Therefore, confes...  Read More

Romans 5:6-11For while we were still helpless, at the right time,  Christ died for the ungodly. For rarely will someone die for a just person, though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die. But God proves  his own love for us  in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. How much more then, since we have now been justified by his blood,  will we be saved through him f...  Read More

Ephesians 2:14-22For he is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In his flesh, he made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that he might create in himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.  He did this so that he might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross by which he put the hostility to...  Read More

Ephesians 6:19-20Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness  the mystery of the gospel. For this I am an ambassador  in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough to speak about it as I should....  Read More

2 Corinthians 5:17-21Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;  the old has passed away, and see,  the new has  come!  Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.  That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world  to himself,  not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of ...  Read More

Romans 5:1-5Therefore, since we have been justified by faith,  we have peace  with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  We have also obtained access through him  by faith  into this grace in which we stand,  and we boast  in the hope of the glory of God. And not only that,  but we also boast in our afflictions,  because we know that affliction produces endurance,  endurance produces proven characte...  Read More

1 Corinthians 10:23-33“Everything is permissible,”  but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,”  but not everything builds up. No one is to seek his own good, but the good of the other person.  Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, without raising questions for the sake of conscience, since the earth is the Lord’s,   and all that is in it.   , If any of the unbelievers...  Read More

Luke 22:39-4639 He went out and made his way as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. 40 When he reached the place, he told them, “Pray that you may not fall into temptation.” 41 Then he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and began to pray, 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me—nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” 43 Then a...  Read More

Mark 10:35-45James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached him and said, “Teacher, we want you to do whatever we ask you.” “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked them.They answered him, “Allow us to sit at your right and at your left in your glory.”Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized...  Read More

Philippians 2:1-11"If, then, there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love,  if any fellowship with the Spirit,  if any affection and mercy,  make my joy complete by thinking the same way,  having the same love,  united in spirit, intent on one  purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition  or conceit,  but in humility  consider others as more important  than yourselves. Everyone...  Read More

Matthew 6:9-13The Lord’s Prayer9 “Therefore, you should pray like this:Our Father in heaven,your name be honored as holy.10 Your kingdom come.Your will be doneon earth as it is in heaven.11 Give us today our daily bread.12 And forgive us our debts,as we also have forgiven our debtors.13 And do not bring us into temptation,but deliver us from the evil one....  Read More