1 John 3:21

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

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

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

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

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.

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

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

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

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

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,

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

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

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

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

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

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.

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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,

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

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Surely then you will lift up your face without spot; Yes, you will be steadfast, and will not fear:

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

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

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

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

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

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

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,

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.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

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,

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

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.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

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

You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

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

I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

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.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

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,

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,