Isaiah 64:8

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.

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

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

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.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

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.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

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,

Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

“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.

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?”

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.

“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.

“When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

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.

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.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

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.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

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

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

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?’

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

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

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

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?

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

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

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.

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

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

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

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

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

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

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?”

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

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

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.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

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.

“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

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

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

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

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

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

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

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

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;

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!

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.