John 1:13

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

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

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

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

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.

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

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.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

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.

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.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

“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.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

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.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

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.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)

Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

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

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

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.

By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is like this, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

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

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it to me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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.

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”