Romans 1:6

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.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

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,

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on the earth.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of 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.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

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

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

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.

not of works, that no one would boast.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

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

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Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through 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.

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,

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

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

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,

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

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.

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

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

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

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

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

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

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

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

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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.