2 Corinthians 5:20

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

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

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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.

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

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

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.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

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.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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,

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”

(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)

until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

“Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you. Everyone return from his evil way now, and amend your ways and your doings.” ’

I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

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.

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

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Every one of you must return now from his evil way, amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

“Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins-” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”

As you enter into the household, greet it.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

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

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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,

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”