Colossians 3:17

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.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

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

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

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.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

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

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

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.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

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

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

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

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

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.”

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.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

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,

“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.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived at Ephesus. Fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

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

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

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,

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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,

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

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

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

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

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed.

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

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

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

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

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

It shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt offerings, the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the meal offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

When you eat, and when you drink, don’t you eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.

He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.

He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.

Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the wedding.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

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,