2 Corinthians 13:5

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

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

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.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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.

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.

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.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

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

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—

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

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

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

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.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

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.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

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

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

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.

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.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

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.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

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

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.

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.”

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

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,

My defense to those who examine me is this:

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

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.

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.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?