1 Corinthians 12:27

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is 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.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

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 as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

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.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

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

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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.”

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”

It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

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

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But now they are many members, but one body.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function,

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.