Numbers 7:11

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

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

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

“The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall encamp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it.”

Also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of Yahweh’s house was set in order.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.

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.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

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

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.

“Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.

Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.

Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”

This was their ordering in their service, to come into Yahweh’s house according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, had commanded him.

They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and shall have linen trousers on their waists. They shall not clothe themselves with anything that makes them sweat.

He commanded them that everyone should sit down in groups on the green grass.

For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

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

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.