1 Corinthians 1:7

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

I and the Father are one.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the wedding feast; that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.