Being Whole

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

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

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

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and 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.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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.

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.”

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

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.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

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

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

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;

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

Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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 has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

I will give you thanks with my whole heart. Before the gods, I will sing praises to you.

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from your midst, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons, nor takes reward.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.