Ephesians 2:19

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

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

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

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.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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

For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

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

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

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

It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

Hannah prayed, and said: “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

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

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

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

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

May God enlarge Japheth. Let him dwell in the tents of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.”

They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.

You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

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!

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

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,