Never Giving Up

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. — read the full passage →

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

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — read the full passage →

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

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

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.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray? — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, — read the full passage →

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

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

I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more.

My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

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.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

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

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.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

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.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

Rejoice always. — read the full passage →

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end, — read the full passage →

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

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

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

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us. — read the full passage →

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

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

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.”

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street. — read the full passage →

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. — read the full passage →

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

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God. — read the full passage →

“These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them. — read the full passage →

Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

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.

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

The proud and haughty man, “scoffer” is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil. — read the full passage →

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

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.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; — read the full passage →

that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.