1 Thessalonians 5:9

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.

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.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

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,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We love him, because he first loved us.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

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

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?

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

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.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

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

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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.”

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

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

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

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

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

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;

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord 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,

We see that they weren’t able to enter in because of unbelief.

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.