1 Corinthians 15:2

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

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.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

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

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.

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

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

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.

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

not of works, that no one would boast.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

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

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

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

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

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

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and many people were added to the Lord.

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

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

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

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.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

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

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.

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,

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

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.