Ecclesiastes 7:8

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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,

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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

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.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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 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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

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.

“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 that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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,

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,

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

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

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Like a city that is broken down and without walls is a man whose spirit is without restraint.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

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

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

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.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

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

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

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.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.