Romans 15:30

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.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

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

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.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

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.

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

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.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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

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.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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,

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

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.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

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

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

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

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

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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,

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

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.

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples; for I am faint with love.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”

Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.

You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

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

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Brothers, pray for us.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.