John 10:4

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

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

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

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

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

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.

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

for Yahweh your God is he who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.”

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

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.”

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally there to us. Our God will fight for us.”

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed. The queens and the concubines saw her, and they praised her.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Yahweh your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’ ”

I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.