Isaiah 56:6

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.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

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

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,

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

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.’ ”

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

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We love him, because he first loved us.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

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

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

“ ‘ “But the children rebelled against me. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and didn’t keep my ordinances to do them, which if a man does, he shall live in them. They profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

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

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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

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,

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

“ ‘ “But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.

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

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

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

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

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.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

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.

But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

the Jews established and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.

The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks. Foreigners will work your fields and your vineyards.

At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

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

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

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

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.