Matthew 13:21

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

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

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

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.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

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

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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

“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.

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

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

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.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

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

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

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.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

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—

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

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

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

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

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

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

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

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

“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.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.

He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

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

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

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

“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.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

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

Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

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

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

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

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

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

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

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

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

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

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.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

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

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

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

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

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;