Romans 12:8

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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—

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

“Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

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.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

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.

For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

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,

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

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

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

On the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from the morning to the evening.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

But the noble devises noble things; and he will continue in noble things.

You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time. Shall we be saved?

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

“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.’

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

When he had gone through those parts, and had encouraged them with many words, he came into Greece.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

how in much proof of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us.

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

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

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.