Destiny

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

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.”

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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 we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, — read the full passage →

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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

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.

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

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,

and, “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed. — read the full passage →

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

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. — read the full passage →

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

You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “That you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

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.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, — read the full passage →

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

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I by my works will show you my faith.

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

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

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.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

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.

Seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. — read the full passage →

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.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of the Kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

Rejoice always.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Now in Jerusalem by the sheep gate, there is a pool, which is called in Hebrew, “Bethesda”, having five porches.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →