Isaiah 19:25

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

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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:

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

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.”

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

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,

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

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.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

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.

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.’ ”

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

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

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,

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,

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

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.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

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.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

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

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

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

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

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

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

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 Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

‘Yahweh bless you, and keep you.

“So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”

Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Their offspring will be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge them, that they are the offspring which Yahweh has blessed.”

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

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,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.