Titus 3:1

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

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

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.

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

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

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

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

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

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

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

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

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

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

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

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

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

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

“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.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

Then Samuel told the people the regulations of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before Yahweh. Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

Behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites, for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man who has skill, for any kind of service, shall be with you in all kinds of work. Also the captains and all the people will be entirely at your command.”

I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.

Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?

However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me.

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

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

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

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.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

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.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.