1 Thessalonians 4:9

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

“ ‘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.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

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,

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

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

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

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

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

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.

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.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

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

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

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.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

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,

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

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

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

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

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

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

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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.

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

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.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

Let brotherly love continue.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

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

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.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

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

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

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,

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

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

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’ ” then he says,

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

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

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

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

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.