Romans 7:22

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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.

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

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

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.

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.

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

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

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

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

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

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.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

My tent also will be with them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

and I will bring them, and they will dwell within Jerusalem; and they will be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.”

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

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.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

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

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

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.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

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

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

But if the service of death, written engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadfastly on the face of Moses for the glory of his face, which was passing away,

“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.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,