1 Thessalonians 2:12

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.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

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.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

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.”

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

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

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

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

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

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.

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,

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.

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.

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

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

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

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

We love him, because he first loved us.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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

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.

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 grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

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.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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?

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.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

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

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

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?

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

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.’

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

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.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.

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

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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.

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart;

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;

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

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

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

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

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.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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,

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

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

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;

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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

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

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.

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,

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

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.

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.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: