1 Corinthians 7:29

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

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

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

What man is there who has pledged to be married to a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.”

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

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.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

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

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

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.

For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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 you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

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

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.

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

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.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

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

Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”