John 21:17

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

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Don’t quench the Spirit.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

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.

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.

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

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

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.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

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.”

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

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.”

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

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.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

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.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

But he denied it, saying, “I neither know, nor understand what you are saying.” He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.

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.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

“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.’

They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”

Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?

Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?

He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”

But he knew their thoughts; and he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Rise up, and stand in the middle.” He arose and stood.

Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make preparations there.”

But Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them, because he knew everyone,

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to be made well?”

But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

Peter therefore denied it again, and immediately the rooster crowed.

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

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

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