Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing its fruit.

He will be great
and will be called the Son of the Most High,
and the Lord God will give Him
the throne of His father David.

Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come, He answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable;

Yet even now I know that whatever You ask from God, God will give You.”

If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself and will glorify Him at once.

For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Moses said:

The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He will say to you.

“This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers.

but he said good-bye and stated, “I’ll come back to you again, if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

If anyone destroys God’s sanctuary, God will destroy him; for God’s sanctuary is holy, and that is what you are.

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity they practiced.

To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and strife, but others out of good will.

Therefore, all who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will reveal this also to you.

And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

And in view of this, we always pray for you that our God will consider you worthy of His calling, and will, by His power, fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith,

God will bring this about in His own time. He is

the blessed and only Sovereign,
the King of kings,
and the Lord of lords,

instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not bring death, he should ask, and God will give life to him—to those who commit sin that doesn’t bring death. There is sin that brings death. I am not saying he should pray about that.

For the Lamb who is at the center of the throne
will shepherd them;
He will guide them to springs of living waters,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Night will no longer exist, and people will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever.

I testify to everyone who hears the prophetic words of this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.

And if anyone takes away from the words of this prophetic book, God will take away his share of the tree of life and the holy city, written in this book.

A good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, and an evil man produces evil things from his storeroom of evil.

A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit.

A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” He said to him. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

If you do what is good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that.

“A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit; on the other hand, a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.

But the seed in the good ground—these are the ones who, having heard the word with an honest and good heart, hold on to it and by enduring, bear fruit.

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus asked him. “No one is good but One—God.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Therefore, did what is good cause my death? Absolutely not! On the contrary, sin, in order to be recognized as sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment, sin might become sinful beyond measure.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval.

No one should seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

Now it is always good to be enthusiastic about good—and not just when I am with you.

But now Timothy has come to us from you and brought us good news about your faith and love and reported that you always have good memories of us, wanting to see us, as we also want to see you.

If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the good teaching that you have followed.

and is well known for good works—that is, if she has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the saints’ feet, helped the afflicted, and devoted herself to every good work.

Fight the good fight for the faith;
take hold of eternal life
that you were called to
and have made a good confession about
in the presence of many witnesses.

Instruct them to do what is good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, willing to share,

This saying is trustworthy. I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed God might be careful to devote themselves to good works. These are good and profitable for everyone.

Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.