2 Corinthians 5:2

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Now Elisha became sick with the illness of which he died; and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh accepts my prayer.

Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

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.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’ ”

God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’ ”

The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

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

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

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.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

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,

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

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.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

Elisha saw it, and he cried, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” He saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes, and tore them in two pieces.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

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.