Exodus 20:6

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

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:

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

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

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,

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

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

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

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

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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

We love him, because he first loved us.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

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.

“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.

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

“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.

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

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.”

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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,

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

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and loving kindness with your servants, who walk before you with all their heart;

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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

If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

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

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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 said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but he will destroy all the wicked.

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;

I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.