James 1:4

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

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.

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

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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 tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

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 this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

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

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

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.

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

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

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

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

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

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.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

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.

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

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

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

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

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

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

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.

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

The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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

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.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

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.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.