Psalms 122:3

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

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

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.

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.

This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of David’s city to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built Millo.

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

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.

His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”

“In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.

David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.

This was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of his father David’s city.

He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.’

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

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,

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

Five curtains shall be coupled together to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.

They shall be double beneath, and in the same way they shall be whole to its top to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.

They were double beneath, and in the same way they were all the way to its top to one ring. He did this to both of them in the two corners.

All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together with all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.

but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”

The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.

He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.

In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half its height: for the people had a mind to work.

So the wall was finished in the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days.

Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Yahweh builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.

What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

“Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place. I will cause them to dwell safely.

You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.

After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them.

“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

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,

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Good News of Christ.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

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

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

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;

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

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

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.