John 8:31

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.

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, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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!

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

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

“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.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

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.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

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,

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.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

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.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

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.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

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

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

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

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 if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

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

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.

But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

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.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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.