John 15:2

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

“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.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

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,

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

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

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

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We love him, because he first loved us.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

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

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.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

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

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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

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

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

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

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

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

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 a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

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

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

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

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.”

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

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

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

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.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

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.