Revelation 3:15

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

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,

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

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

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

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—

“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.

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

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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.”

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

Let brotherly love continue.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

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

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’

but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

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.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

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.

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.

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 the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

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

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

We love him, because he first loved us.

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

“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.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

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

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

“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.

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.

Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.

Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.

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

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,

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!