1 John 2:19

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

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

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

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.

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

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

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

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

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

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

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

Then he says, ‘I will return into my house from which I came out,’ and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, “Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.