1 Corinthians 13:8

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Let all that you do be done in love.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

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

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

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

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

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

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,

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

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

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

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

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;

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon;

Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will make their habitation desolate over them.

but I will send a fire on Teman, and it will devour the palaces of Bozrah.”

All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

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 we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

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

Of Edom, Yahweh of Armies says: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

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

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

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

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.

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

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,