Psalms 73:13

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

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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

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

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

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

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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.

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

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.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

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.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

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

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

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.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.

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

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

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.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’

I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

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

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

For you yourselves know, brothers, our visit to you wasn’t in vain,