1 Thessalonians 2:7

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

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

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

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

I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.” ’

Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.

They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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.

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

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

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

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

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.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.

“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

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.

so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

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.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

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.

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

Have I conceived all this people? Have I brought them out, that you should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which you swore to their fathers?’

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.