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110 Bible Verses about Personal Transformation
You have the power to make choices and change any area of your life, but real transformation comes from God. It's not something you can muscle through on your own; it's the work of Christ in those who sincerely ask for His help in living a transformed life.
Breaking free from sin is tough, I know, but through the power of the Holy Spirit and our relationship with Him, anything is possible. God wants us to live in a state of continual transformation, and that only happens when we surrender our lives to Jesus. It means acknowledging that we need Him and that He's the only one who can bring about true change—in our minds and how we live.
Today is the day to decide to embrace inner transformation, to let Jesus be formed in your heart. Let Him be glorified in you, and He'll give you a life of triumph and glory. Transformation means movement, after all.
God will keep working in you until you are transformed into the likeness of Christ, reflecting more and more of His glory through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Stop allowing yourself to be conformed to the Olam Hazeh, but be transformed by your hitkhadshut (regeneration, renewal) of your mind, so that you may ascertain what is the ratzon Hashem (the will of G-d), what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of G-d.
But it is no longer Anochi (I) who lives, but Moshiach who lives in me, and the Chayyim I now live in the basar, I live by emunah, emunah in the Zun fun der Oybershter, the one having ahavah (agape) for me and having given himself over, on my behalf.
Being convinced of this: that He who began a pe'ulah hatovah (good work) in you, will bring that mitzvoh to completion by Yom Hashem, the Yom Adoneinu, Moshiach Yehoshua.
For the torah you received was that you must disrobe from your former derech of your old self, the one being corrupted according to the ta'avot of AKOV (deceitful) remiyah (guile),And to be renewed by the Ruach Hakodesh controlling your machshavot (thoughts),And to enrobe yourself in the Adam HeChadash (the new Man, humanity), having been created according to the demut Hashem in tzidkat Elokeinu and in the kedushah of HaEmes.
A lev chadash also will I give you, and a ruach chadashah will I put within you; and I will take away the lev haeven (stony heart) out of your basar, and I will give you a lev basar.
And Kefa said to them, Make teshuva (repentance, turning from chet to Hashem) and each of you submit to a tevilah of teshuva in the Shem of Yehoshua HaMoshiach, for the selichat avon of you, and you will receive the matanah of the Ruach Hakodesh.
In reply, he said to him, Omein, omein, I say to you, unless someone is born anew, he is not able to see the Malchut Hashem.
Therefore, make teshuva (repentance, turning from chet [sin] to G-d) and turn in order that your chatta'im, your averos (sins) may be removed,
Not by tzidkateynu (our righteousness) in ma'asim tovim which is to our zchus (merit), but according to His rachamim, He granted us Yeshu'at Eloheynu through the mikveh mayim ruchani of rebirth and hitchadshut of the Ruach Hakodesh,
Now may Hashem direct your levavot in the Ahavas Hashem and into the savlanut of Moshiach.
And rend your lev, and not your garments, and turn unto Hashem Eloheichem; for He is channun (gracious) and rachum (merciful), slow to anger, and of rav chesed, and He relents from sending calamity.
Therefore, put to death your evarim (members) in the Olam Hazeh: zenut (fornication), debauchery, sensuality, zimmah (licentiousness), and chamdanut (covetousness), which is avodah zarah (idolatry).
For those Hashem had da'as of beterem (beforehand), Hashem also decided upon from the beginning to be conformed to the demut (likeness) of Hashemʼs Zun fun der Oybershter, that he should be HaBechor (Firstborn) among many Achim b'Moshiach.
But I say, let your halakhah be by the Ruach HaKodesh, and by no means will you carry out the ta'avot (lusts) of the basar.
But you are an AM NIVCHAR (a chosen people ), a MAMLECHET KOHANIM (a kingdom of priests, royal priests), a GOY KADOSH (a holy nation), an AM SEGULLAH (a people of treasured possession), for this purpose: that you may declare the wondrous deeds of the One who gave you the kri'ah (calling) and summoned you out of choshech into his marvelous ohr.
Cast away from you all your peysha'im, whereby ye have committed peysha; and get you a lev chadash and a ruach chadashah; for why will ye die, O Bais Yisroel?
But the p'ri of the Ruach HaKodesh is ahavah (agape), simcha (joy), shalom (peace), savlanut (patience), nedivut (generosity, kindness), chesed (loving-kindness), ne'emanut (faithfulness),Anavah (meekness, shiflut, lowliness), shlitah atzmi (self-control)…would you not agree? — against these things there is no issur (proscription in the Torah).
For by one korban he has perfected forever HaMekudashim (the ones being set apart as Kedoshim).
Remember ye not the rishonot (former things) neither consider kadmoniyyot (the things of old).Hineni, I am doing a chadashah (new thing); now titzmach (it shall spring forth; Tzemach); shall ye not perceive it? I will even make a derech in the midbar, and neharot in the desert.
In like manner, let your light so shine before Bnei Adam, that they may see your ma'asim tovim (good works) and give kavod (glory) to your Av sh'ba'Shomayim (Father in Heaven).
Elohim HaAv is the One who rescued nafsheinu (our souls) from the memshalet (dominion) of Choshech and transferred us into the Malchut of the Zun fun der Oybershter of His ahavah,In whom we have the pedut (redemption, Geulah release on payment of ransom) through the [kapporah] dahm of Moshiach the selicha (forgiveness) of chatoteinu (our sins).
So then we were co-buried, buried together with KIVRO (Moshiachʼs kever) through a tevilah into mavet, in order that, just as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was given the Techiyah (Resurrection) from HaMesim (the Dead ones) through the Kavod HaAv, so we also should have a halakhah (walk) [lifnei Hashem] in hitkhadshut (renewal, regeneration), in Chayyim Chadashim (New Life).
If we make vidduy (confession of sin) of chattoteinu (our sins), he is ne'eman (faithful) and tzaddik to grant selicha (forgiveness) of chattoteinu (our sins) and give us tohorah (purification, cleansing) from kol avon.
Draw near to Hashem and Hashem will draw near to you. Cleanse your yadayim (hands), you chote'im (sinners)! And purify your levavot, you anashim of double mind!
And just as we have borne the demut of the Adam MIN AFAR HA'ADAMAH (from the dust of the earth), so we will bear also the likeness of the Heavenly Adam (Man).
Set watch over and guard thy lev with all diligence; for out of it are the totze'ot chayyim (issues, wellsprings of life).
For by unmerited Chen v'Chesed Hashem you have been delivered from Hashemʼs Mishpat (Judgment) and granted a share in the Geulah (Redemption), through emunah; and this is not of yourselves, it is a matnat Hashem (gift of G-d);Not the result of doing Gezetz ma'asim, so that before Hashem no man should be a ravrevan (boaster, braggart).
For neither bris milah is anything, nor fehlt (the lacking) of bris milah, but a Bri'a Chadasha.
The Ruach of Adonoi Hashem is upon me, because Hashem mashach (hath anointed) me to preach besurah (good news, glad tidings) unto the anavim (meek, poor, oppressed); He hath sent me to bind up the nishberei lev (the brokenhearted), to proclaim deror (freedom, liberty) for the shevuyim ([Golus] captives), and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
I appeal to you, therefore, Achim b'Moshiach, through the rachamei Hashem (mercies of G-d), to present your geviyah, all of your being, as a korban chai (living sacrifice), kadosh (holy) and acceptable to Hashem, which is your spiritual avodas kodesh service.
For Hashem is the one working in you, both to will and to work according to His chafetz (good pleasure of His will).
It is my tefillah that the eynayim of your levavot may be enlightened so that you may have da'as of what is the tikvah of His kri'ah (his summons from Shomayim), what is the osher (wealth) of the kavod of His nachalah (allotted inheritance) in the Kedoshim,And what is the surpassing gedulat hagevurah (greatness of His power) to us who have emunah, according to the working of the ko'ach of His might
For Hashem did not bestow upon us a ruach of pachad (terror), but of gevurah (miraculous power) and of ahavah (love) and of sound havchanah (judgment).
So, therefore, als (since) we have surrounding us so great an Anan Edim (Cloud of Witnesses), let us also lay aside every weighty impediment and easily ensnaring averos, and let us run with endurance and savlanut the race set before us,For they disciplined us for a short time, as seemed tov to them, but Hashem disciplines us for tov lanu in order that we might share in his kedushah.All musar for the moment seems not to be na'im (pleasant), but seems to bring agmat nefesh; yet afterwards to those who have been taught by musar, it yields the p'ri haShalom and the p'ri haTzedek.Therefore, “Bring chizzuk to the weak hands and the feeble knees;”And make the drakhim straight for your feet, so that the ever (limb, member) which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather have refu'ah (healing).Pursue shalom with kol Bnei Adam, and the kedushah without which no one will see Hashem.See to it that no one fall short of the Chen v'Chesed Hashem; that no SHORESH of merirut (bitterness) sprouting up may cause tzoros, and by it many be made teme'ot;Lest someone guilty of gilui arayot (sexual immorality) or some person who is mitnaged ladat (irreligious, opponent of religion) like Esav, who in exchange for one meal sold HaBechorah belonging to him.For you have da'as that even afterwards, when he desired to receive the nachalah of the bracha, he was rejected, for he found no place for teshuva, though he sought for it with tears.For you have not come to a Har that can be touched and to a blazing Eish and to choshech and gloom and storm,And to the blast of a shofar and the sound of devarim, which sound was such that the ones having heard begged that no further dvar be spoken to them.Fixing our gaze on the Mekhonen (Founder) of our faith, and the One who makes it Shleimut — Yehoshua, who because of the simcha set before him, endured HaEtz HaMoshiach, disregarding its bushah (shame), and “sat down at the right hand of the throne of G-d.”
And tikvah does not in the end lead to our being meyayesh (despairing) in disillusionment and bushah (shame), because the Ahavas Hashem (G-dʼs love) has been poured out in our levavot through the Ruach Hakodesh given to us.
But, als (since) the One who bestows on you the kri'ah (calling) is KADOSH HU, so also yourselves become Kedoshim in hitnahagut (conduct),Because it says in the Torah, KEDOSHIM TIH'YU KI KADOSH ANI (You must be holy ones for I am holy).
Trust in Hashem with all thine lev, and lean not unto thine own binah (understanding).In all thy drakhim acknowledge Him, and He shall make yosher thy orkhot (paths).
But even as it has been written, Things which no eye has seen and LO SHAMU (they had not heard) nor did it come up into the heart of Bnei Adam, the things G-d prepared for the ones who have ahavah for him.
And having looked upon them, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, With Bnei Adam it is impossible; but with Hashem all things are possible.
For I say to all who are among you through the chesed (unmerited favor, grace) given to me, that you should avoid a false sense of superiority in your thinking; rather exercise shlitah atzmi (self-control), thinking with seichel, as G-d has measured to each a measure of emunah.
As the gevurat Hashem (the power of G-d) has given us everything for Chayyim (life) and chasidus through the da'as (personal, saving knowledge) of the One Who bestows on us the kri'ah (calling) to His own Kavod (Glory) and Tzidkanut (Righteousness),So Hashem has given us precious havtachot gedolot (great promises) that through these promises you might become [regenerate] deveykus participants with the life of the teva haelohi (divine nature), having escaped the [degenerate] Olam Hazehʼs lust engendered corruption.
Now to the One who is able to do exceedingly abundantly, beyond all that we ask or think, according to the ko'ach working in us.
But the ones who are mekabel Moshiach Yehoshua have put to be talui al HaEtz (hanging on the Tree) the basar with its teshukot (desires) and its ta'avot (lusts).
Chaverim, now yeladim of Elohim we are, and not yet it is niglah (is revealed) what we will be. We have da'as that when He is niglah, like Him we will be, because we will see Him as He is.
Therefore, now there is no gezar din (verdict) of ashem (guilty), no harsha'ah (condemnation as guilty) for those in Moshiach Yehoshua.
Therefore, let us leave behind the stam (elementary) ikarim (essentials) of the devarim hahora'ah (words of teaching) about Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and let us move ahead to hitbagrut (maturity), not laying again a foundation of teshuva from ma'asim metim (dead works) and Emunah toward Hashem,
My flesh and my levav may fail; but Elohim is the Tzur of my levav, and my chelek l'olam.
Place your machshavot (thoughts) above (in Shomayim), not on the things of the Olam Hazeh.
And now Elohei HaShalom wholly set you apart as Kedoshim and may your whole ruach and nefesh and basar be preserved without blame at the Bi'as HaMoshiach Adoneinu Yehoshua.Ne'eman (Faithful) is the One who summons you to your kri'ah (calling). He will do it.
But they that wait upon Hashem shall renew their ko'ach; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not grow weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Keep asking and it shall be given to you; keep searching and you shall find; keep knocking and the delet shall be opened to you.For everyone asking receives, and the one searching finds, and to the one knocking the delet will be opened.
Search me, O El, and know my levav; test me, and know my thoughts;And see if there be any derech otzev (torturous crooked road) in me, and lead me in the Derech Olam.
But it is Hashem who establishes us with you in Moshiach and has given us the mishchah (anointing),Having put his chotam on us and having given the eravon (pledge) of the Ruach Hakodesh in our levavot (hearts).
No nissayon (temptation) has overtaken you, except that which is common to Bnei Adam, but, Hashem is ne'eman (faithful), who will not let you to be brought into nissayon beyond what you are able, but will make with the nissayon also the derech [Tzaddikim] as a way out for you to be able to endure.
But saying HaEmes in ahavah, let us grow up in every respect unto Him who is the Rosh, Moshiach,
For as many as have had a tevilah into Moshiach have clothed yourselves with Moshiach.
But the torat haEzrakhut (citizenship) we conduct exists in Shomayim, from where also we eagerly await a Moshi'a (Savior), a Go'el, Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua,Who will transfigure the basar of our humiliation into the demut of the mode of being of the guf kavod of Moshiach, according to the pe'ulah (action, work) of his ko'ach (power), even to the subjecting of all things to himself.
Keep back Thy eved also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me; then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the peysha rav (great transgression).
Let the rasha forsake his derech, and the ish aven his machshevot; and let him return unto Hashem, and He will have rachamim upon him; and to Eloheinu, for He will abundantly pardon.
If anyone makes himself tahor from these things he will be a k'li vessel for honorable use, having been set aside as kodesh, useful to HaAdon, ready for every ma'aseh tov.
They that sow in dimah (tears) shall reap in rinnah (joyful song).He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing meshek hazara (seed to be sown) shall doubtless come again with rinnah, bearing his alummot (sheaves).
May the Elohei HaTikvah (the G-d of hope) fill you with simcha and shalom in believing, that you may overflow in tikvah (hope), in the ko'ach (power) of the Ruach Hakodesh.
The Orach Chayyim leads upward to the wise, in order that he may depart from Sheol beneath.
Now the Elohei Hashalom, who brought up in the Techiyas HaMoshiach, HaRo'eh HaTzon HaGadol, through the Dahm Brit Olam, even Adoneinu,May He equip you with every ma'aseh tov in order to do His ratzon, working in us that which is well pleasing in His sight through Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, to whom be kavod l'Olemei Olamim. Omein.
And you being dead in your peysha'im and chatta'im,For we are His masterpiece, having been created in Moshiach Yehoshua for ma'asim tovim, which Hashem prepared beforehand, that the derech of our halakhah should be in them. Therefore, have zikaron (remembrance) that formerly you, the non-Jews in the flesh, who are called “arelim” (uncircumcised ones) by the ones being called “nimolim” (circumcised ones) which is a Milah performed in the flesh by human hands,Have zikaron (remembrance) that you were at that time bazunder (unrelated and separate) from Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having been alienated from the torat haEzrakhut (the citizenship) in the Am Brit, from Yisroel, being zarim (strangers) to the Beritot HaHavtacha, farloiren (lost) and having no tikvah (hope) and without G-d in the Olam Hazeh.But now in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, you, who formerly where in the outermost courts, have been brought near by the kapporah of the dahm of Moshiach.For Moshiach himself is our shalom, who made the Shnayim into Echad, having broken down in the basar of Moshiach the barrier of the Mechitzah (the dividing partition), the Soreg (barrier), the Eyvah (Enmity),By annulling the chok (decree, law) of mishpatim in ordinances that the Shnayim He might create in Himself into Adam Chadash Echad (One New Regenerated Humanity), arbitrating shalom,And that Moshiach might bring the ritztzuy (reconciliation, cessation of enmity), reconciling to Hashem the Shnayim into one guf (body) through the Moshiachʼs Etz, having put to death the Eyvah by it.And having come, Moshiach preached shalom to you, the ones in the outermost courts, and shalom to the ones near;Because through Moshiach we both have HaSha'ar laHashem (gate to approach G-dʼs presence, access of the tzaddikim) by one Ruach Hakodesh to Elokim HaAv.Therefore, then, no longer are you zarim and aliens, but you are fellow citizens of the Kedoshim and bnei bayit members of the household of G-d,In which you amol (formerly) fier zich (comported oneself), according to the course of the Olam Hazeh, according to the Sar Memshelet HaAvir (Prince of Power of Air), the ruach now working in the bnei haMeri (sons of Rebellion).Having been built upon the yesod (foundation) of the Shlichim and Nevi'im, Moshiach Yehoshua himself being the ROSH PINAH,In whom all the binyan (edifice), being fitly joined together, grows into a Heikhal Kadosh b'Hashem;In whom also you are being built together into a Mishkan of Hashem in the Ruach Hakodesh.Among them we too all formerly conducted ourselves in the ta'avot of our basar, following the lusts of the flesh and of the machshavot (thoughts), and we were by nature Bnei Za'am (Sons of Wrath) of Hashem, as also the rest.But Hashem, being rich in rachamim (mercy), because of His ahavah harabba (great love) with which He loved us,Even when we were dead in our peysha'im, He made us alive together with Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach — by the unmerited Chen v'Chesed Hashem you have been delivered in your personal Geulah and the Yeshu'as Elokeinu —
Yeladim, you are of Hashem, and you have overcome them, because greater is the One in you than the one in the Olam Hazeh.
For I, through the Torah, died in relation to the gezetz, so that I might live to Hashem. With Moshiach I have been talui al haetz (hanging on the tree).Yet I went up according to a chazon (revelation), and I laid before them the Besuras HaGeulah which I proclaim among the Goyim, but I did this privately to the men of repute, lest I should run, or should prove to have run, L'TOHU (in vain).But it is no longer Anochi (I) who lives, but Moshiach who lives in me, and the Chayyim I now live in the basar, I live by emunah, emunah in the Zun fun der Oybershter, the one having ahavah (agape) for me and having given himself over, on my behalf.
And you, once having been alienated and oyvim (enemies) in the mind by ma'asim hara'im (evil deeds),Yet now Moshiach reconciled in the Guf (body) of his basar through Moshiachʼs histalkus to present you, Kedoshim holy and without mum (defect) and without reproach before Him,
But now thus saith Hashem that created thee, O Ya'akov, And He that formed thee, O Yisroel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy shem; thou art Mine.Ye are My edim (witnesses), saith Hashem. And Avdi whom I have chosen, so that ye may know and believe Me, and understand that Ani Hu (I am He); before Me there was no El formed, neither shall there be after Me.I, even I, am Hashem; and apart from Me there is no Moshi'a.I have declared, and have saved, and I have proclaimed, when there was no zar (foreign) [g-d] among you; therefore you are My edim (witnesses), saith Hashem, that I am El.Yes, before the yom was, Ani Hu (I am He); and there is none that can deliver out of My Yad; I work, and who shall reverse it?Thus saith Hashem, your Go'el, the Kadosh Yisroel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I shall bring down the fugitives, all of them, even the Kasdim (Chaldeans), whose shout of joy is in the ships.I am Hashem, your Kadosh, t the Boreh Yisroel, your Melech.Thus saith Hashem, which maketh a derech in the yam, and a path in the mayim azzim (mighty waters);Which drew out the merkavah and sus, the army and warrior; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick.Remember ye not the rishonot (former things) neither consider kadmoniyyot (the things of old).Hineni, I am doing a chadashah (new thing); now titzmach (it shall spring forth; Tzemach); shall ye not perceive it? I will even make a derech in the midbar, and neharot in the desert.When thou passest through the mayim, I will be with thee; and through the neharot, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the eish, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Only one thing: conduct in practice your torat haEzrakhut (citizenship) worthily of the Besuras HaGeulah of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear concerning you that you are standing like a ma'oz (fortress, bastion) in one ruach, with one neshamah, contending for the Emunah of the Besuras HaGeulah.
Therefore we are undaunted and do not lose chozek (strength). For, indeed, even if our outward man is becoming old and atrophied, yet our inward man is yom yom being renewed.For our present momentary tzoros is preparing us for an eternal weight of kavod (glory) utterly beyond measure,While we continue to look not at the visible things but the invisible; for the things visible are zemanniyim (temporary) but the things invisible are for l'olamim.
Come to me, all you who are burden-weary and heavy laden, and I will give you Shabbos menuchah.Take my ol (yoke) upon you and learn from me, for I am anav (humble) and have shiflut (lowliness) in lev (heart), and you will find menuchah (rest, security) for your nefashot (souls).They asked him, Tell us. Are you Hu Habah (He who comes) or is our chikiah (wait) to be for the Bias (Coming) of another?For my ol (yoke) is easy and my burden is light.
But you are of Hashem in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua who became to us chochmah (wisdom) from Hashem, our Tzidkanut (Righteousness) and our Kedushah (Holiness) and our Geulah LaOlam (Redemption to the world),
For the Dvar Hashem is chai (living) and chazak (strong), sharper than every double-edged cherev and penetrating as far as the division of nefesh and ruach, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the machshavot and deliberations of the kavanat halev (the inner directedness of the heart).
But if our halakhah is in the Ohr as He is in the Ohr, we have hitkhabrut (joining, adhesion, fellowship) with one another and the dahm of Yehoshua, HaBen of Hashem, gives us tohorah (cleansing) from kol chet.
Beni (my son), if thou wilt receive my words, and treasure my mitzvot with thee;When chochmah entereth into thine lev, and da'as (knowledge) is pleasant unto thy nefesh;Mezimah (discretion) shall be shomer over thee, tevunah (understanding) shall safeguard thee;To save thee from the derech rah, from the ish medaber tahpukhot (man speaking perverse things);Who leaving the orkhot yosher (paths of uprightness), walk in the drakhei choshech (ways of darkness);Who rejoice to do rah, and delight in the tahpukhot (perverse things) of rah (evil);Whose orkhot (paths) are crooked ones, and they are devious in their ma'agalot (paths).To save thee from the isha zarah (strange woman), even from the nokhriyah (strange [immoral] woman) which useth smooth words;Which forsaketh the alluf (companion, husband) of her youth, and forgetteth the brit (covenant) of her G-d.For her bais inclineth toward mavet, and her ma'agalot (paths) to the refa'im (spirits of the dead).None that go unto her return again, neither attain they to the orkhot chayyim (paths of life).So that thou incline thine ear unto chochmah, and apply thine lev to tevunah (understanding);That thou mayest walk in the derech tovim, and be shomer over the orkhot tzaddikim (paths of the righteous).For the yesharim (upright ones) shall dwell in the land, and the tamimim (blameless, faultless ones) shall remain in it.But the resha'im shall be cut off from ha'aretz, and the bogedim (treacherous ones) shall be rooted out of it.Yea, if thou criest out after binah, and liftest up thy voice for tevunah (understanding),If thou seekest her as kesef, and searchest for her as for matmonim (hidden treasures);Then shalt thou understand the Yirat Hashem, and find the Da'as Elohim.
I wait for Hashem, my nefesh doth wait, and in His Devar do I hope.My nefesh waiteth for Adonoi more than the shomrim that watch for the boker; I say, more than the shomrim that watch for the boker.
Now let us not lose chozek in doing Gemilut Chasadim, for BE'ITO (in its season) we will reap, if we faint not.
Show mishpochah (family) affection to one another in ahavah shel achvah (brotherly love). Be first in esteeming one another, in showing mutual respect.
Let all merirut lev (bitterness) and ka'as and wrath and clamor and lashon hora be removed from you, with all resha.And have Chen v'Chesed graciousness with one another. Be kind, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, as also Hashem in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach forgave you.
For [as far as our bechirah (election) is concerned], Hashem did not summon us for tu'ma (uncleanness) but in kedushah (holiness).
But grow in the Chen v'Chesed and Da'as of Adoneinu and Moshieinu, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. Lo HaKavod Gam HaYom V'Gam L'Yom HaOlam. Omein. (To him be glory both now and to the day of eternity. Omein.)
Be anxious in nothing, but in everything by tefillah and by techinnah (supplication) with hodayah (thanksgiving), let your requests be made known before Hashem,And the shalom Hashem, surpassing all binah (understanding), will guard your levavot and your machshavot (thoughts) in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.
Thou wilt keep him in shalom shalom, whose yetzer (mind-set) is stayed on Thee; because he trusteth in Thee.
Therefore, as Bechirim (Chosen ones) of Hashem, Kedoshim and ahuvim, enrobe yourselves in tender feelings of rachmei Shomayim (heavenly compassion, mercy), chesed (lovingkindness), anavah (humility), shiflut (lowliness), and savlanut (longsuffering),
(Mizmor of Asaph) 1 Truly Elohim is tov to Yisroel, even to the barei levav (pure of heart).
So also you must reckon yourselves mesim (dead ones) to Chet (Sin) but Chayyim l'Hashem b'Moshiach Yehoshua (alive to G-d in Messiah Yehoshua).
Let no one deceive himself: if anyone presumes to be chacham among you in the Olam Hazeh, let him become a kesil (fool), that he may become chacham.
Now be Shomrei HaDvar Hashem and not Shomei HaDvar only, thereby causing yourselves to fall under remiyah (deceit, deception).Because if anyone is Shomei HaDavar and not Shomrei HaDavar, this one is like a man looking at his ponum in a mirror,For he observed himself and has gone away and immediately forgot what he looked like.But the one having peered into the Torah HaShleimah (the Perfect Torah), the Torah HaCherut (the Torah of Freedom), and there remaining, not as a forgetful listener but one who is shomer mitzvot and goes into action, this one will have a bracha on his head in all his acts.
Now therefore pay heed unto me, O ye banim; for ashrei (blessed, happy) are they that are shomer over my drakhim.Hear musar, and be chacham, and disdain it not.
And let us consider how to meorer (stimulate, motivate, shtarken) one another to ahavah and mitzvos,And let us not turn away and defect from our noiheg (habitually) conducted daily minyan, as some are doing; let us impart chizzuk (strengthening, encouragement) to one another, and by so much the more as you see the Yom approaching.
And I will give them a lev echad, and I will put a ruach chadashah (new regenerated spirit) within you; and I will remove the lev haeven (heart of stone) out of their basar, and will give them a lev basar;Then said He unto me, Ben adam, these are the anashim that plot evil, and give atzat rah (evil counsel) in this ir,That they may walk in My chukkot, and be shomer over Mine mishpatim, and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim.
I appeal to you, therefore, Achim b'Moshiach, through the rachamei Hashem (mercies of G-d), to present your geviyah, all of your being, as a korban chai (living sacrifice), kadosh (holy) and acceptable to Hashem, which is your spiritual avodas kodesh service.Show mishpochah (family) affection to one another in ahavah shel achvah (brotherly love). Be first in esteeming one another, in showing mutual respect.Be zealous without negligence; with bren (fervor, hitlahavut) be burning with the Ruach Hakodesh. With avodas kodesh serve Hashem.Have simcha in tikvah. Have savlanut in tzoros. Keep davening tefillos.With a spirit of koinonia, keep the pushke full for the needs of the Kedoshim. Aspire to hachnosas orchim.Say a bracha on those who bring redifah (persecution) on you, let it be a bracha and not a kelalah (curse).Join in simcha with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.Think with a (spiritual) consensus in achdus harmony among yourselves. Do not cherish the thoughts of the ba'al gaavah (haughty person), but associate with the anaviyim (humble), with the lowly am ha'aretz; do not be chachamim (wise ones) in your own estimation.Repay no one ra'a (evil) for ra'a (evil). Take into consideration what is haTov in the sight of everyone and do that.If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in shalom with everyone.Do not take your own revenge, beloved, but give opportunity for G-dʼs Charon Af (burning wrath), for it is written, LI NAKAM V'SHILEM (Vengeance is mine and recompense, repayment) — I am He who will repay, says Hashem.Stop allowing yourself to be conformed to the Olam Hazeh, but be transformed by your hitkhadshut (regeneration, renewal) of your mind, so that you may ascertain what is the ratzon Hashem (the will of G-d), what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of G-d.
Now all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the kavod of Adoneinu as if reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same demut from kavod to kavod, even as from HaAdon, HaRuach.
So that if anyone is in Moshiach, he is a bria chadasha (a new being): the old things passed away; hinei, all has become chadashot.