Proverbs 4:13

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

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.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

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

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

I would lead you, bringing you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would have you drink spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

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,

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

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

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances, which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

“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.

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

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

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

The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’ ”

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

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

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

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

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.