Romans 6:17

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.

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.

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

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

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.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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

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.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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.’

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’

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.

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,

“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.

Let brotherly love continue.

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.

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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.

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

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

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

Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.

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

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

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.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

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

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

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?

For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

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I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God,

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,

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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,

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.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.

For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

If they listen and serve him, they will spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God; for they will return to me with their whole heart.

From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

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

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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,

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

I thank my God whenever I remember you,