Acts 7:9

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

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.’ ”

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

Yahweh upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.

Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion!

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

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

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

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

By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea.

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.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

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.”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

He answered, “Look, I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are unharmed. The appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”

You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.

Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”

“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

From the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake. Yahweh’s blessing was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

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.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.