Psalms 31:19

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

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

“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.

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

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.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

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.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

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

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

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

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

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

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

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

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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,

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

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.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

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

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

However I didn’t believe their words until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and behold half of the greatness of your wisdom wasn’t told me. You exceed the fame that I heard!

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

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

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,