1 Peter 3:2

“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.

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

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.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

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

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

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

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.

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

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

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

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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.

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.

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

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

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

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

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

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

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;

Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

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

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.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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

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,

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

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

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

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.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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.

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.

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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,

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,