1 Chronicles 16:35

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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

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

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,

If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

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.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

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

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’

For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’

I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

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

All the offspring of Israel will be justified in Yahweh, and will rejoice!

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

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

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.