1 Corinthians 9:21

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.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

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

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

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.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

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

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.

My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

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.

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

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

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.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

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,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”

Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

For as many as have sinned without the law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

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

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first. I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”

God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

Surely the islands will wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

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

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands wait for his law.”

“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.

For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

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

As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.