Philippians 4:8

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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.

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

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

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

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.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

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

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

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

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

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.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

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

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Let brotherly love continue.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

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

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

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;

Abstain from every form of evil.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

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,

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

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

“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.

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.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

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.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go to glean in another field, and don’t go from here, but stay here close to my maidens.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, ‘One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into God’s house, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hands of Manasseh, Ephraim, of all the remnant of Israel, of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

and weighed to them the silver, the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, his counselors, his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered.

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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

for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

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.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

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