2 Corinthians 1:14

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

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

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.

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

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

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.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, which will cause the burning heavens to be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

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.

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

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

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

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.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

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

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

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.

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.

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

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who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

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.

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

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,

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

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

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

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.

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

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

For you are our glory and our joy.

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

But if any has caused sorrow, he has caused sorrow, not to me, but in part (that I not press too heavily) to you all.

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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.

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

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

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

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

that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

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.

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.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.