Matthew 25:7

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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

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

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—

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

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.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.

She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.

No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep, neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken,

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

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.”

Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

The foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

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

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

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

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

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,

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

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

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the covenant, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

“Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

But the man who shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him. He is unclean.

But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”

You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

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

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; or ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

“Now you are releasing your servant, Master, according to your word, in peace;

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

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

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

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

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth.