Ephesians 2:6

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

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

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.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

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.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until God’s Kingdom comes.”

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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,

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

After the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.

Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

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

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

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

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.

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.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

May Yahweh bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in God’s Kingdom.”

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who was received up from you into the sky, will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”

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.”

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

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

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

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.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

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.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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

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

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

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.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!” All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

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

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb.’ ” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”

But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;