Romans 16:13

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

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

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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,

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

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

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

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.

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

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

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

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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,

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

“ ‘Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Yahweh your God.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

But many who are first will be last; and the last first.”

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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

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,

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.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

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.

that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

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

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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

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

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

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.

Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

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,

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,

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

The rulers ceased in Israel. They ceased until I, Deborah, arose; Until I arose a mother in Israel.