1 Corinthians 13:2

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

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

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

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.

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

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.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

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.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;

For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

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

he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

He went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then God’s Spirit came on him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

As they sat at the table, Yahweh’s word came to the prophet who brought him back;

He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.

They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

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that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

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.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

Don’t despise prophecies.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.