Luke 6:32

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought a Hebrew in to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

But I have said to you, “You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am Yahweh your God, who has separated you from the peoples.

It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

“Come up to me and help me. Let’s strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”

that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

He prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.

Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

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, 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.

When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. We greeted the brothers and stayed with them one day.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, or with the covetous and extortionists, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world.

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.

Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

As you enter into the household, greet it.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.