2 Timothy 3:17

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,

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

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

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

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

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.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

Let brotherly love continue.

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

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

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.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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?

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

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.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

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

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

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

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.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

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

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

The servant said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go.”

Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.”

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.

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.

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.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

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

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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,

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

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

This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.

A man of God came to him, saying, “O king, don’t let the army of Israel go with you, for Yahweh is not with Israel, with all the children of Ephraim.

The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

and I brought them into Yahweh’s house, into the room of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the room of the princes, which was above the room of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

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

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.