Ephesians 1:13

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

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

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Don’t quench the Spirit.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

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.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

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

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

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.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

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

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel. You shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.

Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.

My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

I signed the deed, sealed it, called witnesses, and weighed the money in the balances to him.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

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.”

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

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.

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

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 thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

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

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

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

I saw another angel ascend from the sunrise, having the seal of the living God. He cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to harm the earth and the sea,