1 Thessalonians 5:23

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

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

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

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.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

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

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

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.”

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand,

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

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

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.

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

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

Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.

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.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths; for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

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

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

The nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.” ’ ”

Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord.

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

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

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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:

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

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.

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.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

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

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

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.

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.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

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