Isaiah 43:21

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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,

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

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

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

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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

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.

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

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

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

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

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

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

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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,

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

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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

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

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

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.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

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

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

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

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.

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

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.’ ”

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

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

We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

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

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,

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

“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.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

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

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

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.

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

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

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

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

For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me,’ says Yahweh; ‘that they may be to me for a people, for a name, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,

I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

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!

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.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

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

Say, “Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise.”

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

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.

I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”

He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up. It will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”

“Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish it—Yahweh is his name, says:

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

when he comes in that day to be glorified in his saints and to be admired among all those who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.

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.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

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.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.