2 Corinthians 3:18

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

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.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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.

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.

They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

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

Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

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.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

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.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

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

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.

Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”

The cherubim spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,