John 15:3

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

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

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

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

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Let brotherly love continue.

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

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

“Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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

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

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.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before Yahweh.

when you listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep all his commandments which I command you today, to do that which is right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

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.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in Yahweh your God’s eyes.

When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.