2 Thessalonians 1:3

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

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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,

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

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

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

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.

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

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

“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.

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,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

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

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Let brotherly love continue.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

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.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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

We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

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.”

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

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.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

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.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

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

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Let all that you do be done in love.

not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

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

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

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

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

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 love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

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.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

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

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

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,

For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

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,

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

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