1 Chronicles 16:28

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph!

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

He said, “Come!” Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus.

a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!

Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy.

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth.

God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.

Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.

Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.