Colossians 4:12

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

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

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

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.

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.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.

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

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

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

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

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

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.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

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

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

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,

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

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

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,

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.

Pray without ceasing.

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

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

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

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.

The day following, Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present.

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

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,

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

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

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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

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

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

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.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

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.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

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.

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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

All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

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,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,