Matthew 5:16

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

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

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

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

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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.

he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

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.

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’ ”

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

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,

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,

Let brotherly love continue.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

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

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

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

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.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

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

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

The children of Israel saw Moses’ face, that the skin of Moses’ face shone; so Moses put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

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

Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.

Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

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

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed. So he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

So they glorified God in me.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.