Ephesians 2:17

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 God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace,

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

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.

You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

“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.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

The Good News must first be preached to all the nations.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!

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

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

“It will happen in that day”, says Yahweh, “that I will cut off your horses out from among you, and will destroy your chariots.

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

Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

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.”

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

but with those who stand here with us today before Yahweh our God, and also with those who are not here with us today

Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

From him will come the cornerstone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom,

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

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.”

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.

The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.

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

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

Into whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.