Romans 16:25

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

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.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

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,

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

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

not of works, that no one would boast.

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

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

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

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

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.

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

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;

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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.

Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter.

but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God is finished, as he declared to his servants, the prophets.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

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

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.

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.’

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.

how that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

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

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

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

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

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

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,

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

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

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

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.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

“They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’

Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

For we don’t stretch ourselves too much, as though we didn’t reach to you. For we came even as far as to you with the Good News of Christ,

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit,

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

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,

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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,

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,

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

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.