But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

For whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; Even as a father the son in whom he delights.

When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."

but he who didn`t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom they deposit much, of him will they ask more.

The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn`t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers."

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Most assuredly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Every branch in me that doesn`t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can`t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

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

Neither 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.

Therefore I beg you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Don`t be fashioned according to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

No temptation has taken you but such as man can bear. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Therefore we don`t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.

For though we walk in the flesh, we don`t wage war according to the flesh;

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ`s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

and put on the new man, that like God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Brothers, I don`t regard myself as yet having laid hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Lay hold of the eternal life, whereunto you were called, and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

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 and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ --

Beloved, don`t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

But because you are partakers of Christ`s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also you may rejoice with exceeding joy.