2 Corinthians 1:24

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

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

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

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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;

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

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.

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

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

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.

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

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

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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.

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.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

“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.”

“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him.”

He will corrupt those who do wickedly against the covenant by flatteries; but the people who know their God will be strong, and take action.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak stood up with his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

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

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

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

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

“When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us;’ when Yahweh your God was your king.

Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

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

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

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,

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.”

Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.

You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.