Bible verses about "stagnation" | Etheridge

² and be as (new)-born babes, and be desirous of the word as of milk pure and spiritual, that by it you may increase unto life.

¹ To the angel of the church which is in Ephesos, write: These saith the Holder of all,[Achid Kul.] and of the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven candlesticks of gold. ² I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and (that) thou canst not bear evils; and hast tried those who say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars. ³ And thou hast patience, and hast laboured on account of my name, and hast not fainted. ⁴ But I have against thee, because thy first love thou hast forsaken. ⁵ Remember, therefore, from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works. But if not, I will come to thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick from its place, if thou convert not. ⁶ But this thou hast, that thou hatest the works of the Nikolitu, which also I (hate). ⁷ He who hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him who overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of my God. ⁸ And to the angel of the church which is in Smurna, write: These saith the First and the Last, who was dead, and liveth. ⁹ I know thy works, and affliction, and poverty, but thou art rich; and the blasphemy of them who say of themselves that they are Jihudoyee, and are not, but the synagogue of Satana. ¹⁰ Fear not any thing of those that thou art to suffer; for, behold, it will be that the accuser will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried; and you will have affliction ten days. Be faithful unto the death, and I will give thee the crown of life ¹¹ He who hath ears, let him hear what saith the Spirit to the churches. He who overcometh shall not be injured by the second death. ¹² And to the angel of the church which is in Pergamos, write: These saith he who hath the sharp sword with two edges. ¹³ I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, where (is) the throne of Satana; and thou hast held my name, and not denied my faith in those days when my witness was exposed,* my faithful one, who was killed with you where dwelleth Satana. [* Or, became a spectacle. But, instead of ETHCHAZAITH, spectaculum factus est, the Polyglots read ETHCHARITH AM; "Thou wast in conflict along with my witness, my faithful one."] ¹⁴ But I have against thee a little,["A few things." - POLYGLOT.] because thou hast there those who hold the doctrine of Belam, who taught Balok to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat that which the sons of idols (eat), and to commit fornication. ¹⁵ So hast thou who hold the doctrine of the Nikolitu: of it, in like (manner), repent; ¹⁶ and if not, I will come to thee quickly, and will war against them with the sword of my mouth. ¹⁷ He who hath ears, let him hear what saith the Spirit to the churches. To him who overcometh will I give to eat of the manna which is hidden; and I will give to him the white stone,* and upon the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth but he who receiveth. [* Chushbono, rationale. Query, a breastplate?] ¹⁸ And to the angel and church* which is in Thiatiros, write: These saith the Son of Aloha, who hath his eyes as the flame of fire, and his feet like refined brass. [* So SCHAFF'S text, but not WALTON'S.] ¹⁹ I know thy works, and thy love and faith and service; and also thy patience, and thy last works to be greater than the first. ²⁰ But I have against thee that thou permittest thy wife Izabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat what the sons of idols* (eat). [* WALTON, "To eat the sacrifices of idols."] ²¹ And I gave her time when she might convert, and she willed not to repent of her fornication. ²² Behold, I cast her into a bed, and those who have committed adultery with her into great affliction, if they repent not of their works. ²³ And her sons will I kill with death, and all the churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and the hearts: and I will give to you every one according to your works. ²⁴ But to you I say, to those of the rest who are in Thiatiros, all them who have not this doctrine, the men who know not the depths [Amïkthö.] Of Satana, as they speak; I will not throw upon you another burden; ²⁵ but that which you have, hold, until I come. ²⁶ And he who conquereth, and he who keepeth until the end my works, I will give to him power [Shultono.] over the peoples, ²⁷ and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and as a vessel of the potter shall they be destroyed, as also I have received from my Father; ²⁸ and I will give to him the morning star. ²⁹ He who hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

¹ AND to the angel who is in Sardis write: These saith he who hath the seven Spirits of Aloha, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that a name thou hast that thou livest, and thou art dead. ² Awake, and keep those things which remain, which are about to die; for I have not found thy works complete before my God. ³ Remember then how thou hast received, and hearken, and keep, and repent. And if then thou wilt not awake, I will come against thee as the thief, and thou shalt not know in what hour I come against thee. ⁴ But thou hast a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their vestments; and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy. ⁵ He who overcometh shall be clothed in white vestments, and I will not blot their [Shemo dilhun.] name from the book of life; and I will confess their name before my Father, and before his angels. ⁶ He who hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. ⁷ And to the angel of the church which is in Philadelphia write: These saith the Holy, the True, who hath the key of David; who openeth and no man shutteth,9 and who shutteth [Lit. holdeth.] and no man openeth. ⁸ I know thy works; and, behold, I have given before thee an open door, which no man can shut; because thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. ⁹ Behold, I will give [to those] of the synagogue of Satana, who say that they are Jihudoyee, and are not, but lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and they shall know that I have loved thee. ¹⁰ Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which is to come upon all the habitable world, to try them who dwell upon the earth. ¹¹ I come quickly. Hold that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. ¹² Him who overcometh I will make a column in the temple of my God, and he shall go out no more; and I will write upon him the name of my God, and of Urishlem the new, which descendeth from heaven from my God, and my new name. ¹³ He who hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. ¹⁴ And to the angel of the church which is in Ladikia write: These saith the Amen, the Witness, the faithful, the true, the Head of the creation of Aloha. ¹⁵ I know thy works, that thou art neither hot nor cold. Would that thou wast cold or hot! ¹⁶ So, because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit thee from my mouth. ¹⁷ Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have become opulent, and of nothing have need; and knowest not that thou art infirm, and miserable, and needy, and blind, and naked; ¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy of me gold, proved by fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and the shame of thy nakedness be not seen; and lave with collyrium thine eyes, that thou mayest see. ¹⁹ All those whom I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. ²⁰ Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and will open the door, I will enter unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me. ²¹ And to him who overcometh I will give to sit with me upon my throne, as also I have overcome, and have sat with my Father in his throne. ²² He who hath ears, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

¹ IN that day Jeshu went forth from the house and sat by the sea-side;[By the hand of the sea.] ² and great multitudes gathered near him, so that he went up and sat in a vessel; and all the multitude were standing on the shore of the sea. ³ And he discoursed largely to them in parables, and said: Behold, there went forth a sower to sow; ⁴ and as he sowed, some fell by the road-side, and the fowl came and devoured it. ⁵ Another (portion) fell upon the rock, where there was not much soil; and immediately [Bar-shoteh, "the son of its hour."] it sprung up, because there was no depth of earth. ⁶ But when the sun was risen, it burned, and, because it had no root, it withered away. ⁷ And another fell among the thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked it. ⁸ And another fell into good earth, and gave fruits, this a hundred, another sixty, and another thirty. ⁹ He who hath ears to hear, let him hear. ¹⁰ And his disciples approached, saying to him, Why dost thou speak to them in parables? ¹¹ He replied and said to them, Because unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of heaven, but unto them it is not given. ¹² For unto him who hath, it shall be given, and it shall be increased to him: but [as] to him who hath not, that also which he hath shall be taken from him. ¹³ On this account I speak to them in parables. Hence they see, and (yet) see not; and they hear, and (yet) hear not, neither understand; ¹⁴ and accomplished in them is the prophecy of Eshaia, who said, that hearing they should hear, but not understand, and seeing they should see, but not know. ¹⁵ For the heart of this people is become gross, and with their ears they have heard heavily, and their eyes they have shut, that they may not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I heal them. ¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes which see, and your ears which hear: ¹⁷ for, Amen I say unto you, that many prophets and just ones have desired to behold what you see, and have not beheld, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard. ¹⁸ You, then, attend to the comparison of the seed: ¹⁹ (When) any one who heareth the doctrine of the kingdom doth not understand it, there cometh the evil (one), and snatcheth away the doctrine that was sown in his heart: this is what by the road-side was sown. ²⁰ But that which was sown upon the rock is he who heareth the word, and at once with joy apprehendeth it. ²¹ Yet hath he no root in him, but is (only) for a time; and when affliction or persecution occurs on account of the doctrine, he is quickly offended. ²² That sown [in] the place of thorns, is he who heareth the word, but the anxious thought of this world and the illusions of riches stifle the word in him, and he is without fruits. ²³ But that which upon good ground was sown is he who heareth my doctrine, and understandeth (it), and giveth fruits, and produceth, whether a hundred, or sixty, or thirty fold. ²⁴ ANOTHER comparison he allegorized unto them, and said: The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man who sowed good seed in his field. ²⁵ And while men slept, came his adversary, and sowed zizania among the wheat, and went. ²⁶ And when the plant sprang up and produced fruit, then appeared the zizania. ²⁷ And the labourers of the house-lord drew near and said to him, Our lord, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? From whence then is the zizania in it? ²⁸ But he said to them, A foeman hath done this. The labourers say to him, Art thou willing that we go and gather them? ²⁹ But he said to them, (No,) lest, when ye gather the zizania, you root out with them the wheat also. ³⁰ Leave (them), that both may grow together till the harvest; and in the season of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather first the zizania, and bind them (together in) bundles, that they may burn; but the wheat collect into my barns. ³¹ Another comparison allegorized he to them, and said: The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and sowed in his field. ³² This is less than all other seeds; but when it has grown, it is greater than all herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the fowl of the heavens come (and) build in its branches. ³³ Another parable he spake to them: The kingdom of heaven resembles that leaven which a woman took and hid in three satas [The seä, or sata, was the third of an ephah.] of meal, until the whole was leavened. ³⁴ All these spake Jeshu in parables to the multitude; and without a parable he did not speak with them. ³⁵ That there should be fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet, who said, I will open my mouth in comparisons, and pour forth things hidden from before the foundation of the world. ³⁶ Then Jeshu dismissed the multitudes, and came into the house; and his disciples drew near him, and said to him, Expound to us the comparison of the zizania of the field. ³⁷ He answered and said to them, He who sowed the good seed is the Son of man. ³⁸ The field is the world. Now, the good seed are the sons of the kingdom, but the zizania are the sons of the evil one. ³⁹ The adversary who sowed them is Satana; the harvest is the consummation of the world; the reapers are the angels. ⁴⁰ As, therefore, the zizania are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the completion of this world. ⁴¹ The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall collect from his kingdom all those who cause offence, and all (who) work iniquity, ⁴² and shall throw them into a furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then the just shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who hath ears to hear, let him hear. ⁴⁴ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure which was hidden in a field, (and) which a man found and concealed, and from joy went and sold all that he had, and bought that field. ⁴⁵ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man a merchant, who sought goodly pearls; ⁴⁶ but who, when he had found one pearl of exceeding price, went, sold all that he had, and bought it. ⁴⁷ Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, which was thrown into the sea, and from every kind collected. ⁴⁸ And when it was full, they drew to the shore, and sat down, and selected; and the good they threw into vessels, and the bad they cast without. ⁴⁹ Thus shall it be at the consummation of the world. The angels shall go forth, and separate the evil from among the just, ⁵⁰ and cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth! ⁵¹ Jeshu said to them, Have you understood all these? They say to him, Yes, our Lord. ⁵² He saith to them, On this account every scribe who is learned in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man a house-lord, who bringeth forth from his treasuries the new and the old. ⁵³ AND when Jeshu had finished these parables, he passed from thence, ⁵⁴ and came to his city, and taught them in their synagogues, so that they were astounded and said, Whence hath he (Whence to him) this wisdom and these powers? ⁵⁵ Is not this the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mariam, and his brothers, Jakub, and Josi, and Shemun, and Jehuda? ⁵⁶ and his sisters, all, are they not with us? Whence to this one all these? ⁵⁷ And they were offended with him. But Jeshu said to them, No prophet is contemned except in his own city, and in his own house. ⁵⁸ And he did not many miracles there on account of their unbelief.

⁶ On account of this I put thee in mind to keep awake the gift of Aloha, which is in thee by the laying on of my hands.

²⁵ And let us not forsake our congregation, as is the custom with some; but pray one with another; (and) so much the more as ye see that day to be approaching.

⁴ but to patience let there be a perfect work, that you may be complete and perfected, and in nothing be deficient.

¹ But know this, that in the last days hard times will come; ² and men will be lovers of themselves, and lovers of money, boastful, lofty, blasphemous, to their men not obedient, deniers of grace, impious, ³ calumniators, subjected to lust, brutal, haters of the good, ⁴ traitors, impetuous,[Or, hasty.] puffed up, lovers of lusts rather than the love of Aloha; ⁵ having a form of the worship of Aloha, but from the power of Aloha afar off: (them) who are such put from thee. ⁶ For of them are they who creep into houses, and captivate women who are overladen with sins, and led away by divers lusts; ⁷ who, in all time learning, never to the knowledge of the truth are able to come. ⁸ But as Yonis and Yanbris stood against Musha, so also these stand against the truth: men whose understanding is corrupted, and reprobate from the faith. ⁹ But they shall not come further, for their folly is known to all men, as also of them it is known. ¹⁰ BUT thou hast followed [Ath ethaith bothar.] my doctrine and my manners, and my purpose, and my faith, and my prolongedness of mind, and my charity, and my patience, ¹¹ and my persecution, and my sufferings. And thou knowest what things I endured in Antioch, and in Ikonion, and in Lystra, what persecution I endured; and out of all these my Lord delivered me. ¹² But all they who will in the fear of Aloha to live in Jeshu Meshiha, are persecuted. ¹³ But wicked men and seducers add to their wickedness, deceiving, and being deceived. ¹⁴ But abide thou in those things that thou hast learned, and in which thou art confirmed; for thou knowest from whom thou hast learned: ¹⁵ and that from thy childhood thou hast learned the holy writings, which are able to make thee wise to salvation, through faith which is in Jeshu Meshiha. ¹⁶ FOR all scripture which from the Spirit is written, is profitable for doctrine, and for rebuke, and for correction, and for instruction [Or, discipline.] which is in righteousness: ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect unto every good work, and completed.