1 Samuel 12:22

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

“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.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

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.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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?

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

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

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

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

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

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.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

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,

You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

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

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”

I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

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.

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

Don’t go up, for Yahweh isn’t among you; that way you won’t be struck down before your enemies.

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.

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

I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

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

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.

Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.

Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

May Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us;

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

For the Lord will not cast off forever.

“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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.

but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, ‘Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’

were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’ ”

Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies,

For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

You whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from its corners, and said to you, ‘You are my servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away.’

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.

For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.

For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, by his God, by Yahweh of Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;

Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

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.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”