1 Peter 1:9

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

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

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,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

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.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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,

“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.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

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.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

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

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

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,

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

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

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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?

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

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

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

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

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, 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.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

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.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of 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.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

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.

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.”

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’

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.

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.”

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

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.

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

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

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

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

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;

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.