2 Corinthians 4:16

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

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

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

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

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;

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

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.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

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.

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.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

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.

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

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

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.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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

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?

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.

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.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

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.

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.”

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

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

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

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

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

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

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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.”

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

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

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.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

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.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’

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

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

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

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

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing.

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

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.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

Give us day by day our daily bread.

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,