Strengthening Our Relationship With Jesus

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

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

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.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

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 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.

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.”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

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.”

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.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. — read the full passage →

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

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,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — 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.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

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

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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.”

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

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

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

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. — read the full passage →

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

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

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

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

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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

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.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you; — read the full passage →

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. — read the full passage →

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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

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.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him. — read the full passage →

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

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

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 →

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble. — read the full passage →

But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

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

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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 →

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

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

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

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

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.