1 Peter 1:13

Let all that you do be done in love.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

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

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

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

and don’t give place to the devil.

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.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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.”

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

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.”

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

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

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.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’ ” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

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

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace,

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

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,

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.

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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

She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”

Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, “Put your belt on your waist, take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

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

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut.

and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

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;

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,