2 Corinthians 1:9

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

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.

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.

Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

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

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

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.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

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

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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,

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.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

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

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

I and the Father are one.”

When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

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

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

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

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.

All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.