Luke 14:30

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

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

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.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

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

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

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

But Lot’s wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

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.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

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.

Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

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,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

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.

He shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honor; but, behold, Yahweh has kept you back from honor.”

Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

I said, “Should a man like me flee? Who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

“ ‘ “But when the people of the land come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go out by the way of the north gate. He shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go out straight before him.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell—and great was its fall.”

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

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

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

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.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

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

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”