2 Corinthians 1:12

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

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.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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.

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

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

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

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

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

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

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

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

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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 I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Brothers, pray for us.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

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.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

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.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

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.

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

For I have kept Yahweh’s ways, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.

and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

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

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

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

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,