Colossians 1:5

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Let all that you do be done in love.

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.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

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

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

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

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

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

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

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

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.