1 John 4:16

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

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

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,

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

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.”

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

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

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

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

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

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.

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

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

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.”

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

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

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

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

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

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

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.

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

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

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

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

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

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

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

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.

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

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

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.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

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

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.

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

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,

Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.

We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.