1 John 2:10

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

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

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

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

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

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.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

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

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

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.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

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

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Let brotherly love continue.

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.