1 Thessalonians 3:12

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

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

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

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

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

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

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.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

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.

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.

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

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

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

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.

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.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

If you love me, keep my commandments.

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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?

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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

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.

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,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

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

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

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.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

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

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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,

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Let all that you do be done in love.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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

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,

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

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