1 Thessalonians 5:14

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.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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.

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

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.

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

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 Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

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.

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.

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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.

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

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,

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

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

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

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

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

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.

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.

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

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 the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

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

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

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,

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

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,

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

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,

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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

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

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

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.

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.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

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

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

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.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.”

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.

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

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

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.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

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

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

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.