JUDGES 6 : 23
Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: you shall not die.
Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; don't be afraid: you shall not die.
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
Our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do: but out eyes are on you.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Don't snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, For I put my hope in your ordinances.
Israel, hope in Yahweh, For with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.
He has swallowed up death forever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh has spoken it.
Comfort you, comfort you my people, says your God.
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.
who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places of it;
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
I said, 'I have been banished from your sight; Yet I will look again toward your holy temple.'
Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says Yahweh. 'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,' says Yahweh, 'and work, for I am with you,' says Yahweh of Hosts.
Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
'After these things I will return. I will again build the tent of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up,
Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
"Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?"
who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.
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;
while we don't look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
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 taken 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 for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead-- Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} at his coming?
But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before eternal times;
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, And they will be to me a people.
For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"
For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
Blessed is the man 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.
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn't fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.