1 John 4:13

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.”

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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

“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.”

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

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.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

“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.

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

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet them of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

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

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.

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 as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

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

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.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.