Isaiah 60:21

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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.

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

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

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

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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.

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

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

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.

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.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

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,

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

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

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

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

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

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.

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

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

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 those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

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

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

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

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.

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.

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

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

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.”

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

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

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.

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

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

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.

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.

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.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

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

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!

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,” says Yahweh your God.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.

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

Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

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

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.

When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”

Instead of your shame you will have double. Instead of dishonor, they will rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they will possess double. Everlasting joy will be to them.

You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

They will dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which your fathers lived. They will dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever. David my servant will be their prince forever.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

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

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

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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.

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

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

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”

You will be established in righteousness. You will be far from oppression, for you will not be afraid, and far from terror, for it shall not come near you.

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.”

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

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.