1 Thessalonians 4:7

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.

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

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

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,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

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

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.

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

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.

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

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;

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.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

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;

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

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

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,

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.”

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

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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.

not of works, that no one would boast.

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

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

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Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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

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

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,

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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?

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

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

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

You shall be holy to me, for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

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,

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

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

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

so that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

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

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

They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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,

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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,

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

“ ‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

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

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;