1 Timothy 2:3

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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.

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

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

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

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.

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

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

not of works, that no one would boast.

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

{14.24} To Him now being able you to strengthen according to the gospel of mine and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery in times of the ages kept secret,

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

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety toward their own family and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

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

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

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

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior,

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

I know how to be humbled, and I also know 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.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.