Acts 9:36

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

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.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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.

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

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.

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

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

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.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly 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.

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

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.

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

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,

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

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

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

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

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.

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

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?

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

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

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

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

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

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

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.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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.

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

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

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

Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

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.

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

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

“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.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.”

They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.

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.

Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa.

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.

As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them.

but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every 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.

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;

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

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love, until it so desires.

Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

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

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

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also called Peter.

Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

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

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

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;

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.

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.

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

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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

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.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

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.