Study Desk

You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.

You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near.

for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

and, "A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.

For it is commendable if someone bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they are conscious of God.

To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin.

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager to serve;

In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble."

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

I am writing to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.