Romans 8:17

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!

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

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.”

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

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

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

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.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

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

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

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.”

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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

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.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.

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.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

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.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

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.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

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.

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.

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

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

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

“But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.’

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.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

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 if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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.

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

“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.’

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;

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

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.’

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

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

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

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

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

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?

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.