Luke 22:32

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

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,

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

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

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

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

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

However, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.”

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

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

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

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

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed 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.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

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.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

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.

Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners will be converted to you.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

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.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

He built up Yahweh’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Then one like the appearance of a man touched me again, and he strengthened me.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.

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 go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.’ ”

Or how can you tell your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,’ when you yourself don’t see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother’s eye.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

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

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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,

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you 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.

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

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.

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.