Ephesians 1:14

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.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

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.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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.

Don’t quench the Spirit.

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

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

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.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

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

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.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

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.

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

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

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

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.”

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.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

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

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:

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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.

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.

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.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

As birds hovering, so Yahweh of Armies will protect Jerusalem. He will protect and deliver it. He will pass over and preserve it.”

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

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

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.

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

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

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,

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

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.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, the place, Yahweh, which you have made for yourself to dwell in; the sanctuary, Lord, which your hands have established.

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.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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,

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

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

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.

In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!

‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’ ”

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

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.

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.’

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”