1 Corinthians 14:6

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

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,

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

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.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

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

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

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

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

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 everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.

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

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

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,

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

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.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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;

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

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

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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,

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

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.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

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

For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.

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.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

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

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

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

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.

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

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

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.