1 Thessalonians 4:10

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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,

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.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

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

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.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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;

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

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

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

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

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

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

hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

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

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

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

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

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

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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

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,

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

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

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

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

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,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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

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

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

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

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.

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

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.

so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

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,

We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

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

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

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,

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

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.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

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.

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.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

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