John 17:18

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

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.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

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.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’ ”

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

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.”

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Yahweh put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him.

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

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.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

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.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

“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.”

He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,