Those who are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God.

They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be fat and luxuriant;

As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, Jehovah shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is for the iniquity which he has done that he dies.

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.

O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and it goes away like the early dew.

and those drawing back from following Jehovah, and who have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired of Him.

But he who endures to the end shall be kept safe.

And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear, receive the Word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of trial draw back away.

But the ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the Word with an honest and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with steadfastness.

But I have prayed for you, that your faith does not fail; and when you have returned, strengthen your brethren.

As He spoke these words, many believed into Him.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

As the Father loves Me, I also love you; continue in My love.

If you keep My commandments, you will continue in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and continue in His love.

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced, and encouraged them all that with purpose of heart they should continue with the Lord.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must enter the kingdom of God through many afflictions.

eternal life to those who steadfastly doing good, seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility;

I am afraid for you, lest I have labored among you in vain.

You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not faint.

For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold fast to the origin of our Foundation steadfast to the end,

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul is not pleased with him.

who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, the ones who have actually escaped from those living in error.

For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the full true knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the end is worse for them than the beginning.

But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to his own vomit, and, a sow, having been washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will remain in Him.

Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have affliction ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

being rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock;

and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

He is like a man building a house, who digs deep and lays the foundation on the rock. And when the flood rises, the stream bursts against that house, and cannot shake it, for it is founded on the rock.

in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is dried up; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

that no one should be disturbed by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.

because of the hope being laid up for you in Heaven, of which you heard before in the Word of the Truth of the gospel,

And hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness out of faith.

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and good hope by grace,

that being justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters in within the veil,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

which has come to you, as in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as it is also among you, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed: Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.

This day I will begin to put the dread and terror of you upon the faces of the peoples under all the heavens, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and writhe because of you.

And take heed, when you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, that you not be driven to bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah your God has allotted to all the peoples under the heavens.

Pursue and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of Jehovah.

And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under Heaven given among men that is required for us to be saved.

of which I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the Word of God,

for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship which Judas abandoned, that he might go to his own place.

But arise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things in which I will appear to you.

that I might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human day in court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

who also made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not faint.

Now all things are from God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As God is exhorting through us, we beseech you on Christ's behalf, Be reconciled to God.

We then, as workers together with Him, also beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I excel them: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.

of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me strength, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry,

for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle; I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying; a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep safe what I have committed to Him until that Day.

But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.