3 John 1:6

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

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.

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

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

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

and I will give him the morning star.

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

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

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.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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.

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

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.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.

How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to the apostles.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

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

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

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

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.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

But with you it may be that I will stay, or even winter, that you may send me on my journey wherever I go.

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.

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

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.

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

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;

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

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

When those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.

whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be sent forward by you on my journey to Judea.

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

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,

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.