John 12:26

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

“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.’

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

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

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

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.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus 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.

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.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

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.

“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.

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

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.

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

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?

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.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

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

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.

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.

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.

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

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.

“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.’

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

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

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

You know where I go, and you know the way.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

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 the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

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.