Romans 8:16

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

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.

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:

Don’t quench the Spirit.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

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.”

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

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

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

“ ‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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

They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

“ ‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.

men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

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

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

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,

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.