Psalms 138:8

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

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

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

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

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?

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

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

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

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.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

Yahweh has made everything for its own end— yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

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.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

The priests stood, according to their positions; the Levites also with instruments of music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, when David praised by their ministry, saying “For his loving kindness endures forever.” The priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire for the work of your hands.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

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.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: