James 1:25

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

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.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

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!

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

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

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

to keep Yahweh’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?

If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.

Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in Yahweh’s house.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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.

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

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.

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.