1 John 3:9

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

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

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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

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.

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?

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

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

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.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

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,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

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

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

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.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

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.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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;

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

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

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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

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.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

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.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

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

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

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

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

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

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

If part of their carcass falls on any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,