Luke 8:13

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.

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

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.

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

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

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

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

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

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

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.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

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

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

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:

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd. My shepherds didn’t search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep.”

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”

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

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.”

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

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

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.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

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

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

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.

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,

Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

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

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”

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.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

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

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

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

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

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

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.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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 faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

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

and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

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.