2 Corinthians 13:3

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

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.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

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

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

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.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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,

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

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

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.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

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.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

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.

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

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.

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.

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

My defense to those who examine me is this:

This punishment which was inflicted by the many is sufficient for such a one;

Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

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.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.