2 Corinthians 13:11

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

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

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.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

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

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

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

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.

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

For there are three who testify:

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

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.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.

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.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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;

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.

Jesus stood still, and said, “Call him.” They called the blind man, saying to him, “Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!”

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.