1 Corinthians 13:6

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

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.

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

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”

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 wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very bitterly.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “ ‘Do men fall, and not rise up again? Does one turn away, and not return?

Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let the your eyes rest.

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

“Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!

In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

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.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

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,

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

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

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

What has my beloved to do in my house, since she has behaved lewdly with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.”

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

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

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

They were glad, and agreed to give him money.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.