John 1:47

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

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!

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

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

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

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

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

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

You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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.

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

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

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

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

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.

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?

and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

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

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

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

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

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

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

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

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

For he said, “Surely, they are my people, children who will not deal falsely;” so he became their Savior.

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

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.

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

who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”