1 Kings 8:58

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’ ” then he says,

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

“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.

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 make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

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.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

“You shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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,

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.

“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

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

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess all the days that you live on the earth.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land that you go over to possess;

“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.