Proverbs 22:21

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

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

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

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.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

“The vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it belongs to many days to come.”

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare. He understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

I will accept you as a pleasant aroma when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered. I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

“Behold, there was another animal, a second, like a bear. It was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth. They said this to it: ‘Arise! Devour much flesh!’

I saw the ram pushing westward, northward, and southward. No animals could stand before him. There wasn’t any who could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and magnified himself.

“Now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings will stand up in Persia; and the fourth will be far richer than all of them. When he has grown strong through his riches, he will stir up all against the realm of Greece.

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

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Now the centurion, and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

“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.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

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.

This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.

By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”

Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”

But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,

But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”