TSK · Romans 8:28

and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Then I said,“Please, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant with those who love him and obey his commandments,

The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who are loyal to him will live in it.

The earth will tremble and writhe in agony. For the LORD will carry out his plan. He plans to make the land of Babylonia a wasteland where no one lives.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’

You also are among them, called to belong to Jesus Christ.

And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad(so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling)–

God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

For all these things are for your sake, so that the grace that is including more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God.

But when the one who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace was pleased

He did this when he revealed to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Encouragement in Persecution This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,

“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.

Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.