Philippians 1:16

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.

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.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

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.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him. The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

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

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

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

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

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

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

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

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

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

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

“Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

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

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.