1 Corinthians 14:20

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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

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

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

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

Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

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.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

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

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

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.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

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

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

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.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

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

According to the good hand of our God on us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brothers, eighteen;

Therefore I set guards in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places. I set the people by family groups with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.

As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man. The four of them had the face of a lion on the right side. The four of them had the face of an ox on the left side. The four of them also had the face of an eagle.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

But when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains,

Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

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

The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle.