1 Peter 3:15

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

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

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

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.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

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.”

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

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

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

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

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.

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

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

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

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

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,

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,

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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.

Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

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.

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.

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.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

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 the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”

But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

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

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

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.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.