Matthew 13:52

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

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.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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.”

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

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.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

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

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

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

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

The words of a man’s mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in the presence of the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; one fathers’ house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

I, even I Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers who are beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, requires of you, it shall be done with all diligence,

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

The mandrakes produce fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.