Bible verses about "wholeness" | BBE

¹ To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands. ² Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge. ³ There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound. ⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun, ⁵ Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way. ⁶ His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat. ⁷ The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish. ⁸ The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes. ⁹ The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness. ¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey. ¹¹ By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward. ¹² Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil. ¹³ Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin. ¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.

¹ And it came about, after a short time, that he went through town and country giving the good news of the kingdom of God, and with him were the twelve, ² And certain women who had been made free from evil spirits and diseases, Mary named Magdalene, from whom seven evil spirits had gone out, ³ And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's chief house-servant, and Susanna and a number of others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs. ⁴ And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story: ⁵ A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven. ⁶ And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water. ⁷ And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth. ⁸ And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear. ⁹ And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story. ¹⁰ And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them. ¹¹ Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God. ¹² Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation. ¹³ And those on the rock are those who with joy give hearing to the word; but having no root, they have faith for a time, and when the test comes they give up. ¹⁴ And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit. ¹⁵ And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit. ¹⁶ No man, when the light is lighted, puts a cover over it, or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its table, so that those who come in may see the light. ¹⁷ For nothing is put out of view which will not be made clear, and nothing is secret of which the knowledge will not come to light. ¹⁸ So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have. ¹⁹ And his mother and his brothers came to him, and they were not able to get near him because of the great number of people. ²⁰ And someone said to him, Your mother and your brothers are outside desiring to see you. ²¹ But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it. ²² Now it came about on one of those days that he got into a boat with his disciples; and he said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the water: and they put out the boat. ²³ But while they were sailing he went to sleep: and a storm of wind came down on the sea, and the boat became full of water and they were in danger. ²⁴ Then they came to him and, awaking him out of his sleep, said, Master, Master, destruction is near. And he, when he was awake, gave orders to the wind and the rolling waves, and the storm came to an end, and all was calm. ²⁵ And he said to them, Where is your faith? And fear and wonder overcame them, and they said to one another, Who then is this, who gives orders even to the winds and the water and they do what he says? ²⁶ And they came to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. ²⁷ And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil spirits; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead. ²⁸ And when he saw Jesus, he gave a loud cry and went down on the earth before him and in a loud voice said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Do not be cruel to me. ²⁹ For he gave an order to the evil spirit to come out of the man. For frequently it would take a grip of him: and he was kept under control, and prisoned with chains; but parting the chains in two, he would be sent by the driving of the evil spirit into waste places. ³⁰ And Jesus said to him, What is your name? And he said, Legion; for a number of spirits had gone into him. ³¹ And they made a request to him that he would not give them an order to go away into the deep. ³² Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them. ³³ And the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction. ³⁴ And when the men who took care of them saw what had come about, they went quickly and gave news of it in the town and the country. ³⁵ And they went out to see what had taken place, and they came to Jesus and saw the man out of whom the evil spirits had gone, seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, at the feet of Jesus; and fear came on them. ³⁶ And those who had seen it gave them an account of how the man who had the evil spirits was made well. ³⁷ And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes made a request to him to go away from them; for they were in great fear: and he got into a boat and went back. ³⁸ But the man from whom the evil spirits had gone out had a great desire to be with him, but he sent him away, saying, ³⁹ Go back to your house and let them have news of all the great things which God has done for you. And he went away, giving word through all the town of the great things which Jesus had done for him. ⁴⁰ And when Jesus went back, the people were glad to see him, for they were all waiting for him. ⁴¹ Then there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler in the Synagogue: and he went down at the feet of Jesus, desiring him to come to his house; ⁴² For he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was near to death. But while he was on his way, the people were pushing to be near him. ⁴³ And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had given all her money to medical men, and not one of them was able to make her well, ⁴⁴ Came after him and put her hand on the edge of his robe, and straight away the flowing of her blood was stopped. ⁴⁵ And Jesus said, Who was touching me? And when they all said, It is not I, Peter and those who were with him said, Master, the people are pushing round you on every side. ⁴⁶ But Jesus said, Someone was touching me, for I had the feeling that power had gone out from me. ⁴⁷ And when the woman saw that she was not able to keep it secret, she came, shaking with fear, and falling down before him she made clear before all the people the reason for her touching him, and how she was made well straight away. ⁴⁸ And he said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace. ⁴⁹ While he was still talking, someone came from the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, saying, Your daughter is dead; do not go on troubling the Master. ⁵⁰ But Jesus at these words said to him, Have no fear, only have faith, and she will be made well. ⁵¹ And when he came to the house he did not let any man go in with him, but only Peter and John and James, and the father of the girl and her mother. ⁵² And all the people were weeping and crying for her; but he said, Do not be sad, for she is not dead, but sleeping. ⁵³ And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead. ⁵⁴ But he, taking her hand, said to her, My child, get up. ⁵⁵ And her spirit came back to her and she got up straight away: and he gave orders that food was to be given to her. ⁵⁶ And her father and mother were full of wonder, but he gave orders to them to say nothing about it to anyone.

¹⁷ And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my name they will send out evil spirits; and they will make use of new languages; ¹⁸ They will take up snakes, and if there is poison in their drink, it will do them no evil; they will put their hands on those who are ill, and they will get well.

³ Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; ⁴ Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose; ⁵ Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you. ⁶ And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit; ⁷ So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia. ⁸ For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything. ⁹ For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

¹ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea. ² And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband. ³ And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God. ⁴ And he will put an end to all their weeping; and there will be no more death, or sorrow, or crying, or pain; for the first things have come to an end. ⁵ And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true. ⁶ And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need. ⁷ He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son. ⁸ But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death. ⁹ And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels in which were the seven last punishments, came and said to me, Come here, and see the bride, the Lamb's wife. ¹⁰ And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ¹¹ Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass: ¹² She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels; and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel. ¹³ And on the east were three doors; and on the north three doors; and on the south three doors; and on the west three doors. ¹⁴ And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. ¹⁵ And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall. ¹⁶ And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high. ¹⁷ And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. ¹⁸ And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass. ¹⁹ The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; ²⁰ The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. ²¹ And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass. ²² And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple. ²³ And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb. ²⁴ And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it. ²⁵ And the doors of it will never be shut by day for there is no night there: ²⁶ And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it: ²⁷ And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.

¹ And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb, ² In the middle of its street. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, having twelve sorts of fruits, giving its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree give life to the nations. ³ And there will be no more curse: and the high seat of God and of the Lamb will be there; and his servants will be worshipping him; ⁴ And they will see his face; and his name will be on their brows. ⁵ And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever. ⁶ And he said to me, These words are certain and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to make clear to his servants the things which are now to come about. ⁷ See, I come quickly. A blessing on him who keeps the words of this book of the prophet. ⁸ And I, John, am he who saw these things and to whose ears they came. And when I had seen and given ear, I went down on my face to give worship at the feet of the angel who made these things clear to me. ⁹ And he said to me, See you do it not; I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: give worship to God. ¹⁰ And he said to me, Let not the words of this prophet's book be kept secret, because the time is near. ¹¹ Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still. ¹² See, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man the outcome of his works. ¹³ I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. ¹⁴ A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town. ¹⁵ Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false. ¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give witness to you of these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star. ¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely. ¹⁸ For I say to every man to whose ears have come the words of this prophet's book, If any man makes an addition to them, God will put on him the punishments which are in this book: ¹⁹ And if any man takes away from the words of this book, God will take away from him his part in the tree of life and the holy town, even the things which are in this book. ²⁰ He who gives witness to these things says, Truly, I come quickly. Even so come, Lord Jesus. ²¹ The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. So be it.

¹¹ The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will give his people the blessing of peace.

¹⁷ For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.

¹ And he got together his twelve disciples and gave them the power of driving out unclean spirits, and of making well all sorts of disease and pain.

¹² Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.

¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things have being.

¹⁰ And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

²⁰ He sent his word and made them well, and kept them safe from the underworld.

²⁵ He who is in love with life will have it taken from him; and he who has no care for his life in this world will keep it for ever and ever.

¹ For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

⁹ For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form, ¹⁰ And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:

¹³ However, when he, the Spirit of true knowledge, has come, he will be your guide into all true knowledge: for his words will not come from himself, but whatever has come to his hearing, that he will say: and he will make clear to you the things to come.

¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

¹⁰ The thief comes only to take the sheep and to put them to death: he comes for their destruction: I have come so that they may have life and have it in greater measure.

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth. ² Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort; ³ Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope; ⁴ But let this power have its full effect, so that you may be made complete, needing nothing. ⁵ But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him. ⁶ Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind. ⁷ Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord; ⁸ For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways. ⁹ But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up; ¹⁰ But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. ¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways. ¹² There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him. ¹³ Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test: ¹⁴ But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. ¹⁵ Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death. ¹⁶ Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. ¹⁷ Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. ¹⁸ Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made. ¹⁹ You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry; ²⁰ For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man. ²¹ For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation. ²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas. ²³ Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass; ²⁴ For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like. ²⁵ But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts. ²⁶ If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value. ²⁷ The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.