Galatians 1:6

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.

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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,

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.

not of works, that no one would boast.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

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.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

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.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

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

He went on his way through cities and villages, teaching, and traveling on to Jerusalem.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

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,

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned away from the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”

Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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,

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. Amen.