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Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. — 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.

But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

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 →

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

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

Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, — read the full passage →

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. — read the full passage →

I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

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.”

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore I have not been confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be disappointed.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, — read the full passage →

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

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

So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; — read the full passage →

Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. — read the full passage →

Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

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.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts, — read the full passage →

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,

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

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

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

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 →

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

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 →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

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 →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — 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 →

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

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

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters; — read the full passage →

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

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.

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,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

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 →

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, — read the full passage →

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. — read the full passage →