Romans 9:16

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 when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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,

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

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

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

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

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

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

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

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

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.

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.

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

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

“Because the leaders took the lead in Israel, because the people offered themselves willingly, be blessed, Yahweh!

You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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.

They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.

He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

But, as it is written, “They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven’t heard will understand.”

that no flesh should boast before God.

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

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

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

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

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

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ”

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

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no part with me.”

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

not of works, that no one would boast.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.