Encouragment

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;

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;

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.

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

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.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

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

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; — read the full passage →

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. — read the full passage →

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

I love you, Yahweh, my strength.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? — read the full passage →

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there. — read the full passage →

This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. — read the full passage →