1 Corinthians 7:25

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

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

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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.

Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

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

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

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

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

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.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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.

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

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

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

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.

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

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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 you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

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

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

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.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

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

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

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

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God’s Spirit.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

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 are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.