Colossians 1:8

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

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.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

But as for me, I am full of power by Yahweh’s Spirit, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

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.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

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

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

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

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

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.

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.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

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

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

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,

Let brotherly love continue.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

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

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

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

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

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

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

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.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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.

We love him, because he first loved us.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,