1 Thessalonians 4:1

“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.

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

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.

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

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

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

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.

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.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

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.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

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

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

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

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,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

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

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

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,

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.

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

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.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Brothers, pray for us.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

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

For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

Then he will send out his angels, and will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the sky.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

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

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

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,

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

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,

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

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

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

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

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

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

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

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

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

Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them:

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

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

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

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.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

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.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

But you didn’t learn Christ that way,

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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;

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

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.

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