James 1:21

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.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

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

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.

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

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

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

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.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

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

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

“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.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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?

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

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

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

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

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

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

receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

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

Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”

He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,