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Reward according to works

When you become a Christian, do no just repent from serious sins, but repent to a life of true righteousness and holiness before God, because our eternal reward is according to our works (the works of the attitudes of our hearts, the works of the thoughts of our minds, the works of the words of our mouths, and the works of our deeds). Spend time with Him every day, read and know his Bible, pray to Him, worship and praise Him. Have a quiet time with Him every day. Have Him in your thoughts throughout your day. Do not live holy because of the reward, but because it is pleasing to your God, and it is to the glory of God. Don't do your good works before people, to be seen by them, but do it before God, for it is pleasing to Him and it glorifies Him.

Matt 5:16 [WEB] Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Matt 7:22, 23 22 Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ 23 Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Matt 16:27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Matt 23:5 But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments

John 3:19-21 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

John 14:12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

Acts 10:35 but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

Rom 2:5-10 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; 6 who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:” 7 to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life; 8 but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation, 9 oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 10 But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Rom 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Gal 5:19-21 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Phil 2:13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Jas 2:14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Jas 2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

Jas 2:20 But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Jas 2:24 You see then that by works, a man is justified, and not only by faith.

1Pet 2:11, 12 11 Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1John 3:8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Jude 1:14, 15 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

Rev 2:2 “I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

Rev 2:26 He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

Rev 3:2 Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

Rev 14:13 I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

Rev 20:12, 13 I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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Respect the Holy Spirit

Have respect for the Holy Spirit when you see God's Spirit working. Don't make light of it and don't laugh at it. Don't speak lightly about the Spirit or speak against the Holy Spirit and the work of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our salvation. He guides us and enables us to live the Christian life. Without him we are lost.

John 3:6, 7 [WEB] 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

Matt 12:32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

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Respect the grace of God

Just as we must have the proper respect for God, so we also should have the proper respect for God's grace through the cross and the blood of Jesus, which make it possible for us as imperfect human beings to have a relationship with God. Do not misuse the grace and the blood of Jesus - don't sin, and keep your side of your relationship active and full of respect for God.

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Repentance

Salvation includes repentance from sin as seen below, but also remember that we will be rewarded and judged according to our works, so when you repent, repent to a life of holiness before God in all righteousness before Him.

Matt 3:1, 2 [WEB] 1 In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, 2 “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Matt 3:7, 8 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

Matt 3:11 I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

Matt 4:17 From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

Matt 9:13 But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Matt 11:20-24 20 Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent. 21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. ‡ For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today. 24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”

Matt 12:41 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

Matt 21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

Mark 1:4 John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching the baptism of repentance for forgiveness of sins.

Mark 1:14, 15 14 Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of God’s Kingdom, 15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Mark 6:11, 12 11 Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!” 12 They went out and preached that people should repent. 13 They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.

Luke 3:2, 3 2 in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness. 3 He came into all the region around the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

Luke 3:7-9 7 He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones! 9 Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”

Luke 5:32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Luke 10:10-16 10 But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, 11 ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’ 12 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. 13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14 But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the judgment than for you. 15 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades [Hades is the lower realm of the dead, or Hell]. 16 Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Luke 11:32 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

Luke 13:3 I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

Luke 13:5 I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

Luke 15:7 I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Luke 15:10 Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.

Luke 24:46, 47 46 He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 3:19 “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Acts 5:31 God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

Acts 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

Acts 13:24 before his coming, when John had first preached the baptism of repentance to Israel.

Acts 17:30, 31 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, 31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.

Acts 19:4 Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Acts 20:21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

Acts 26:20 but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Rom 2:4-6 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God; 6 who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

1Cor 6:9, 10 Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

2Cor 7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

Gal 5:19-21 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

2Tim 2:24-26 24 The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient, 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

Heb 6:1, 2 1 Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, 2 of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

2Pet 3:9 The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Rev 2:5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

Rev 2:16 Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

Rev 2:20-22 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 22 Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

Rev 3:3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Rev 9:20, 21 20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn’t worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can’t see, hear, or walk. 21 They didn’t repent of their murders, their sorceries [the word for "sorceries" also implies the use of potions, poisons and drugs], their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

Rev 16:9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.

Rev 16:11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.

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Rapture - 2 articles

About the catching up (or the rapture), and the circumstances on earth in those days, there are two articles you can read (I don't agree with everything in the second article):

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Praise God for his love

Praise God for his love, grace, mercy, compassion, yes for his loving kindness toward us. Without Him we are lost, but by the grace of God through the cross and the blood of Jesus we have access to the awesome God, who takes good care of us every day.

Ps 13:5, 6 [WEB] 5 But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation. 6 I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me.

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Our God is mighty to protect us

Our God is mighty to protect us, also in the spirit world. Those who are involved in spiritual warfare will know this. The Name of Jesus is mighty over all the power of the enemy, Satan and his fallen angels and demons.

Gen 17:1 [WEB] When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

Deut 3:24 “Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?

Deut 6:21 then you shall tell your son, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Deut 7:8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deut 10:17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

Deut 26:8 Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;

Josh 1:8, 9 8 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. 9 Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Josh 4:24 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.

2Sam 22:14, 18 14 Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.

18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

2Chr 14:11 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

Ps 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

Ps 24:8 Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.

Ps 71:16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.

Ps 89:8 Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

Ps 89:13 You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

Ps 91:1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Ps 93:4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

Ps 106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise?

Ps 106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.

Ps 145:4 One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

Ps 147:5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

Ps 150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!

Isa 1:24 Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies.

Isa 9:6, 7 6 For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

Isa 40:10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

Isa 42:13 Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

Isa 49:26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Isa 60:16 You will also drink the milk of the nations, and will nurse from royal breasts. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior, your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Jer 20:11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Jer 32:18, 19 18 You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name: 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Ezek 20:34 I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.

Joel 1:15 Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Zeph 3:17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Zech 10:5 They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

Luke 9:1 He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

Luke 10:17 The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

Luke 10:19 Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

2Cor 6:17, 18 Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. 18 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

2Cor 10:4, 5 4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ

Rev 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Rev 4:8 The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!

Rev 15:3 They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Rev 16:7 I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments.”

Rev 16:14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

Rev 19:6 I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!

Rev 19:15 Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

Rev 21:22, 23 22 I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple. 23 The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

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Original languages of the Bible

The Old Testament was written in ancient Hebrew, with a few passages in ancient Aramaic (for example in Daniel and Ezra). The Old Testament Hebrew text used by the translators of the World English Bible was the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. The New Testament was written in Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Conquests of Alexander the Great (335–323 BC) until the evolution of Byzantine Greek (c. 600). For the New Testament Greek text, the World English Bible used the Greek Majority Text.

I have great confidence in the World English Bible. It is available online for free here, or you can download it to your computer for free:

You can also order it in book form here:

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Old and New Testament

We can learn a lot from the Old Testament, just as from the New.

Matt 13:52 [WEB] He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

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The Oden Hetrick website is here…

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Oden Hetrick - The Testimony of Heaven

See under Playlists - look for "Oden Hetrick - The Testimony of Heaven". There are 10 videos about his visits to Heaven.

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Names of God in O.T. and their meaning

El Shaddai (Lord God Almighty) El Elyon (The Most High God) Adonai (Lord, Master) Yahweh (Lord, Jehovah) Jehovah Nissi (The Lord My Banner) Jehovah-Raah (The Lord My Shepherd) Jehovah Rapha (The Lord That Heals) Jehovah Shammah (The Lord Is There) Jehovah Tsidkenu (The Lord Our Righteousness) Jehovah Mekoddishkem (The Lord Who Sanctifies You) El Olam (The Everlasting God) Elohim (God) Qanna (Jealous) Jehovah Jireh (The Lord Will Provide) Jehovah Shalom (The Lord Is Peace) Jehovah Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts)

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Love

Love is the fulfilment of all the commandments. Love is to have affection for, to be loyal to, to be devoted to, and to give of yourself, your time, your effort, etc. to God and people. Love God by obeying him, spending time with him by reading the Bible, praying, worshiping him, listening to the Holy Spirit, and love your neighbor as yourself.

Exod 15:13 [World English Bible] “You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.

Exod 20:6 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Exod 34:6, 7 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

Lev 19:18 ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Lev 19:34 The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

Num 14:18, 19 18 ‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’ 19 Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

Deut 4:37 Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

Deut 5:10 and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Deut 6:5 You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

Deut 7:9-12 9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations, 10 and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11 You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances which I command you today, to do them. 12 It shall happen, because you listen to these ordinances and keep and do them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the loving kindness which he swore to your fathers.

Deut 10:12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deut 11:1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Deut 11:13, 14 13 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, 14 that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

Deut 11:22 For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you—to do them, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cling to him—

Deut 23:5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

Deut 30:6 Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

Deut 30:16 For I command you today to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

Deut 30:20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Josh 22:5 Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

1Sam 18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

2 Sam 12:24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. Yahweh loved him;

1Chr 16:34 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

2Chr 5:13 when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

2Chr 7:3 All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

Ezra 3:11 They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.”

Neh 1:5 and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

Neh 9:17 and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

Ps 5:7 But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

Ps 5:11 But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.

Ps 13:5 But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.

Ps 21:7 For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.

Ps 23:6 Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Ps 25:10 All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Ps 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

Ps 31:23 Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

Ps 32:10 Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh.

Ps 33:18 Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

Ps 36:7 How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

Ps 40:11 Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Ps 59:10 My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

Ps 59:16 But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

Ps 62:12 Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

Ps 85:7 Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.

Ps 86:5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Ps 86:13 For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol [Sheol is the place of the dead].

Ps 86:15 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Ps 91:14 “Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Ps 94:18 When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Ps 97:10 You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Ps 103:11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

Ps 103:17 But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Ps 107:43 Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

Ps 116:1 I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

Ps 119:132 Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.

Ps 138:2 I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth;

Ps 145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. Your dominion endures throughout all generations. Yahweh is faithful in all his words, and loving in all his deeds.

Ps 147:11 Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

Prov 3:12 for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Prov 4:6 Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Prov 8:17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Prov 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Prov 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

Prov 17:9 He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Prov 20:28 Love and faithfulness keep the king safe. His throne is sustained by love.

Prov 29:3 Whoever loves wisdom brings joy to his father; but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.

Song 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

Song 1:15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.

Song 4:7 You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

Song 4:10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

Isa 16:5 A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

Isa 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Isa 63:7 I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Isa 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Jer 9:24 But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Jer 16:5 For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.

Jer 31:3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

Jer 33:11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

Lam 3:22 It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Lam 3:32 For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

Ezek 16:8 “ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.

Dan 9:4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

Dan 9:23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.

Dan 10:11 He said to me, “Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now.” When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.

Dan 10:19 He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

Hos 2:19 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

Hos 11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with ties of love; and I was to them like those who lift up the yoke on their necks; and I bent down to him and I fed him.

Joel 2:13 Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

Mic 7:18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Zeph 3:17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

Mal 1:2, 3 2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob; 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

Matt 3:17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Matt 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

Matt 12:18 “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

Matt 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

Matt 22:36-39 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Matt 24:12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

Mark 1:11 A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Mark 9:7 A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

Mark 10:21 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

Mark 12:28-31 28 One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: 30 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. 31 The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12:32, 33 32 The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he, 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Luke 3:22 and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form like a dove on him; and a voice came out of the sky, saying “You are my beloved Son. In you I am well pleased.”

Luke 6:27 “But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Luke 6:32 If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Luke 6:35 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Luke 7:47 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

John 3:16 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.

John 3:19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

John 3:35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.

John 5:42 But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.

John 8:42 Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

John 10:17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

John 13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 13:34, 35 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:21 One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

John 14:23 Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

John 14:24 He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do…

John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:17 “I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

John 16:27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

John 17:23 I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

John 17:26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Rom 5:5 and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Rom 5:8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Rom 8:28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Rom 8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Rom 8:38, 39 38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom 9:13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

Rom 9:25 As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”

Rom 12:9, 10 9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. 10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Rom 13:8-10 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

1Cor 2:9 But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

1Cor 8:3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

1Cor 12:31-1Cor 13-7 31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

1 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. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, 5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

1Cor 14:1 Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

1Cor 16:14 Let all that you do be done in love.

1Cor 16:22 If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

2Cor 6:6 in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

2Cor 13:11 Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

2Cor 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Gal 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives 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.

Gal 5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Gal 5:22, 23 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith [or, faithfulness], 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Eph 1:4 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,

Eph 1:15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

Eph 2:4-6 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Eph 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Eph 3:19 and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Eph 4:1-3 1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Eph 4:14, 16 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

16 from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Eph 5:2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Eph 5:28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Eph 5:33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Phil 1:9-11 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ, 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Phil 2:1, 2 1 If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, 2 make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Col 1:4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

Col 1:7, 8 7 even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf, 8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

Col 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

Col 2:2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

Col 3:14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

1Thess 1:3, 4 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. 4 We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,

1Thess 3:6 But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

1Thess 3:12 May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

1Thess 4:9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

1Thess 5:8 But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

1Thess 5:12, 13 12 But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, 13 and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake.

2Thess 1:3 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,

2Thess 2:13 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,

2Thess 2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

2Thess 3:5 May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

1Tim 1:5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

1Tim 1:14 The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

1Tim 2:15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

1Tim 4:12 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

1Tim 6:11 But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

2Tim 1:7 For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

2Tim 1:13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

2Tim 2:22 Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

2Tim 3:4 traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2Tim 3:10 But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

Titus 2:2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

Titus 2:4 that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

Titus 3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

Phlm 1:5 hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

Heb 6:10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Heb 10:24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Heb 12:6 for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.

Heb 13:1 Let brotherly love continue.

Jas 1:12 Blessed is a person 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.

Jas 2:5 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?

Jas 2:8 However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

1Pet 1:7, 8 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ— 8 whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

1Pet 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

1Pet 2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

1Pet 3:8 Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

1Pet 4:8 And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

2Pet 1:5-7 Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; 6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness; 7 and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

1John 2:5, 6 But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him: 6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

1John 2:10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

1John 2:15 Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

1John 3:1 See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

1John 3:10, 11 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

1John 3:14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

1John 3:16-18 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him? 18 My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

1John 3:23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

1John 4:7-12 7 Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. 8 He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. 9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

1John 4:16-21 16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. 17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us. 20 If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

1John 5:1-3 1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. 3 For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

2John 1:3 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

2John 1:5, 6 5 Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

3John 1:1 The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

3John 1:6 They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

Rev 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Rev 2:4 But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

Rev 2:19 “I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Rev 3:9 Behold, I give some of the synagogue of Satan, of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but lie—behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

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Inspiring

Noelle with "You Raise Me Up"

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Importance of knowing God's commandments

Matt 5:19 [WEB] Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matt 15:3 He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Matt 19:17 He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Matt 22:36-40 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Mark 12:28-31 28 One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: 30 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. 31 The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Luke 1:6 They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

John 13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

John 14:15-17 15 If you love me, keep my commandments. 16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever: 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

John 14:21 One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.

John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

John 15:12-14 “This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

1Cor 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

1Cor 14:37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

1Tim 6:14 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

2Pet 2:20, 21 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

2Pet 3:2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

1John 2:3-6 3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. 4 One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him. 5 But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him: 6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

1John 3:21, 22 21 Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; 22 so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

1John 3:23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

1John 3:24 24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

1John 4:21 21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

1John 5:2, 3 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments. 3 For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

2John 1:6 This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

Rev 12:17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

Rev 14:12 Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Rev 22:14 Blessed are those who do his commandments,† that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

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If you fear God

If you fear God, meaning to have the proper respect for Him as God, you do not have to be scared of Him. It sounds like a contradiction, but it is true. If you fear Him, you will see to it that there is no sin in your life, and you will obey Him and serve Him as your God and Father - the same with the Lord Jesus Christ. Then you won't be scared of Him. It is when you do not fear Him that you must be scared of Him.

Remember that He is gentle in his daily dealings with us. We are also commanded to be gentle with people. Gentle means mild and moderate and not harsh or severe. So do not be afraid to go to God in prayer. You need Him for your salvation, so go to Him with all your problems, even your sins that are difficult to overcome. Through the blood of Jesus, which covers our sins, we have access to our Father. He will help us. We need his help anyway.

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How do I worship the Lord

Thank him for everything in your life

Read out loud some of the Psalms of praise. The Psalms of praise are Ps 18, 21, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 40, 41, 66, 98, 100, 105, 106, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117, 135, 136, 138, 146, 147, 150

Listen to worship music (if you don't have worship music, go to a music shop and find worship music you like.) You can also download for free worship music from the Divine Revelations website… look under "Free Praise &Worship Music" The website is here: http://www.divinerevelations.info/

Lift up your hands in praise when you listen to the music or when you praise God.

Ps 134:2 [WEB] Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

Pray: Father in Heaven, I thank you and praise you for… (salvation, looking after you, helping you in your life, etc.)

After your worship session, you can pray and read the Bible and other material, perhaps on the Internet. Do as the Holy Spirit guides you.