And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be kept safe alive; but because of the elect, whom He chose, He has shortened the days.

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

Yet the righteous will take hold on his way, and he who has clean hands shall increase strength.

But the path of the just is as the brightness of dawn, that keeps getting brighter until it is fully daytime.

Then we shall know, we who follow on to know Jehovah. His going forth is established as the dawn. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.

However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all Truth; for He will not speak things originating from Himself, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will make known to you things to come.

being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it unto the day of Jesus Christ;

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in full true knowledge and all discernment,

for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

that you may be blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.