2 Corinthians 5:21

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

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.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

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.

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

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

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

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;

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don’t eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

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?

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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.”

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.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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.

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,

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.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

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

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”

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

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

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.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

and he said to Aaron, “Take a calf from the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering, without defect, and offer them before Yahweh.

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.

For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

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.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;