Colossians 1:28

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

I will set up shepherds over them, who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

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

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

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,

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

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

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

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely. This is the name by which she will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

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

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

He opened his mouth and taught them, saying,

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

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

“I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

“ ‘Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has gone out. The rod has blossomed. Pride has budded.

The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

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

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

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

But Paul and Barnabas stayed in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

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

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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

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 in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

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.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.