Genesis 30:29

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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.

“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.’

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

You know that I have served your father with all of my strength.

“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.’

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.

Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you.”

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.

The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

“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.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men,

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,