John 3:21

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

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.”

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

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?

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

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

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

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

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

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.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

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

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.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

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

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

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.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Let brotherly love continue.

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

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

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

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,

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,

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,

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

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

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

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

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

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

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.

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

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

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

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.

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,

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

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

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

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

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”

On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

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

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

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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.

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,

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

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.