1 Peter 1:4

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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.”

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.

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.

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

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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

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

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

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 I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

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

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

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,

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

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

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

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

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

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!’

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

Now when I had returned, behold, on the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

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

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

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.

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

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

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 lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

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.

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;

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

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?

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

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!

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?