TSK · John 15:16

After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.

we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the LORD’s praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

The fruit of the righteous is like a tree producing life, and the one who wins souls is wise.

Ideal Israel Delivers the Exiles Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The LORD summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.

“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

“Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets called out, saying,‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said,“Turn now from your evil wickedness,”’ but they would by no means obey me,” says the LORD.

Then Jesus came up and said to them,“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

When morning came, he called his disciples and chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

Jesus replied,“Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?”

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

So Jesus said to them again,“Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.”

But the Lord said to him,“Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel.

“And now I know that none of you among whom I went around proclaiming the kingdom will see me again.

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

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)–

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow.

These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.

For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher.

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.

Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.

We love because he loved us first.