2 Thessalonians 3:4

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

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.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

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.

You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’ ”

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

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.

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

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

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

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

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

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

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

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Give us today our daily bread.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

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

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

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

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

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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,

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

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

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;

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

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.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

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

I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.