1 John 1:4

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

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

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

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

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,

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

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

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

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.

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,

Be diligent to come to me soon,

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

I had many things to write to you, but I am unwilling to write to you with ink and pen;

Yahweh God made garments of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.

“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

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.

Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.

He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

“But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe, and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand, and sandals on his feet.

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,

Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

Then the people rejoiced, because they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Yahweh; and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the wife, the Lamb’s bride.”

But now I come to you, and I say these things in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

An evil man is snared by his sin, but the righteous can sing and be glad.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.