1 John 3:19

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

“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.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

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

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

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

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

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

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

“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.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

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

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

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

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

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

For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

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.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

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

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.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

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.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

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

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

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

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

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

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

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

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

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

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

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.