2 Peter 1:8

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

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

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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

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

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

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

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

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.

that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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,

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

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.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

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.

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

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.

About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Those which were sown on the good ground are those who hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, some thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times.”

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

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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.

how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

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.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.