1 Corinthians 3:7

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

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

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,

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,

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

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

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

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

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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

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.”

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

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

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

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.

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

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

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.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

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.

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

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.

I will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

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,

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

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.

Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”

He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth:

Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their strength.

Simon Peter said to them, “I’m going fishing.” They told him, “We are also coming with you.” They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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