Philemon 1:16

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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,

But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

Command and teach these things.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

and having a great priest over God’s house,

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

Then they laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

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

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

When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to Nicopolis, for I have determined to winter there.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

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.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

Immediately he came to Jesus, and said, “Hail, Rabbi!” and kissed him.

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

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

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

where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

and saying, “Lord, my servant lies in the house paralyzed, grievously tormented.”

He said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.’

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.

it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight!’ In that very hour I looked up at him.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.