1 Corinthians 3:6

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

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

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

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

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

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

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

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

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

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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

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

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

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.”

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

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

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God;

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.

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.

The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

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.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.