John 15:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“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.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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.

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.

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

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

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

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

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

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.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

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

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

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

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

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.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

He answered, “He who dipped his hand with me in the dish will betray me.

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

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

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

but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

We love him, because he first loved us.

At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

Greet Rufus, the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”