Colossians 2:12

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

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

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

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.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

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

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

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

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

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.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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.

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.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

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

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

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

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

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,

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

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

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.

For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

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

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

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.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

They were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,