2 Corinthians 6:12

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.

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

“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.’

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.

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

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.

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

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

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

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

The steps of his strength will be shortened. His own counsel will cast him down.

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

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

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.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.

Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I commanded the assemblies of Galatia, you do likewise.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

“ ‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

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

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.

Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

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

But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

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.

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.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

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.

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

He said, “What is the thing that he has spoken to you? Please don’t hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you.”

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Hear Yahweh’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

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

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?