Hebrews 4:11

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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;

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

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

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

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

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

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

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.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

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.

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

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.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

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

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

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

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in 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.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

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

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

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

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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

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

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

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.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

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 I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”