Jacob journeyed on and reached the territory that belonged to the people who lived in the east.

For I am the least of the apostles and not even fit to be called an apostle because I persecuted God's church.

When the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was astonished at the Lord's teaching.

Therefore, God has mercy on whomever he chooses, and he hardens the heart of whomever he chooses.

"For this is what the LORD says: "When Babylon's seventy years are completed, I'll take note of you and will fulfill my good promises to you by bringing you back to this place.

The LORD reigns! He is clothed in majesty; the LORD is clothed, and he is girded with strength. Indeed, the world is well established, and cannot be shaken.

because Demas, having fallen in love with this present world, has abandoned me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

He established the earth on its foundations, so that it never falters.

Now pay attention! I'm here with you, and I'm going to be watching over you wherever you go. I'm going to bring you back to this land, because I won't ever leave you until I've accomplished what I've promised about you."

Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God.

A message came to me from the LORD, and this is what it was:

Serve the LORD with joy. Come before him with a joyful shout!

All the people experienced the thunder and lightning, the sound of the ram's horn, and the smoking mountain. And as the people experienced it, they trembled and stood at a distance.

Now there was a man in prison named Barabbas. He had been with the insurgents who had committed murder during the rebellion.

But the citizens of his country hated him and sent a delegation to follow him and to announce, "We don't want this man to rule over us!'

So Jesus asked the Twelve, "You don't want to leave, too, do you?"

The LORD told him, "This won't happen, because whoever kills you will suffer seven times the vengeance." Then the LORD placed a sign on Cain so that no one finding him would kill him.

Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Then some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said. However, they didn't see him."

Blessed is the person who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorways

I will sing forever about the gracious love of the LORD; from generation to generation I will declare your faithfulness with my mouth.

Welcome her in the Lord as is appropriate for saints, and provide her with anything she may need from you, for she has assisted many people, including me.

so Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set aside?"

He asked them, "Are you so ignorant? Don't you know that nothing that goes into a person from the outside can make him unclean?

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways."

Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, though the wicked will continue to act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand. Nevertheless, the insightful will understand.

Keep your father's commands, my son, and never forsake your mother's rules,

"I let myself be sought by those who didn't ask for me; I let myself be found by those who didn't seek me. I said, "Here I am! Here I am!' to a nation that didn't call on my name.

If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus from merely human motives, what do I get out of it? If the dead are not raised, "Let's eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

"But as for you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I've chosen, the offspring of my friend Abraham

Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD made with you based on all these words."

He went to his hometown and began teaching the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were amazed and asked, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles?

The towns in the Negev will be closed up, and there will be no one to open them. All Judah will be taken into exile and be completely exiled.

He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.

When David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and set it on fire.

Moses called all of Israel together and told them: "Listen, Israel! Today I'm going to announce God's laws and regulations so that you will learn them and take care to obey them.

So the servant went to the house and unbridled the camels. They provided straw and feed for the camels and water for washing his feet and those of the men with him.

Samuel told Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people, Israel. Now listen to the words of the LORD.

""Her prophets whitewashed all of these things through false visions and lying divinations. They kept on saying, "This is what the Lord GOD says"", when the LORD has not spoken.

Those who give freely gain even more; others hold back what they owe, becoming even poorer.

However, this will happen to each person in the proper order: first the Messiah, then those who belong to the Messiah when he comes.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but whoever works diligently increases his prosperity.

But when everything has been put under him, then the Son himself will also become subject to the one who put everything under him, so that God may be all in all.

What does this mean? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing psalms with my spirit, but I will also sing psalms with my mind.

Large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, those unable to talk, and many others. They placed them at his feet, and he healed them.

Who ate the fat of their offerings and drank the wine that was their drink offering? Let them rise and help you and be your hiding place!'

If your enemy hungers, give him food to eat; and if he thirsts, give him water to drink.

Someone informed Joab, "The king is weeping bitterly, mourning for Absalom."

"Don't lay your hand on the youth!" he said. "Don't do anything to him, because I've just demonstrated that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only unique one, from me."

Not only that," Pharaoh continued, "after they had finished devouring the cows, nobody could tell that they had gobbled them up, because they were just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

Ask of me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your possession.

until you are driven insane from what your eyes will see.

For we know the one who said, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."

"Then I heard one holy person speaking, and another holy person addressed the one who was speaking: "In the vision about the regular burnt offering, how much time elapses while the desecration terrifies and both the Holy Place and the Heavenly Army are trampled?'

For this is what the LORD says: "Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and soon my deliverance will be revealed.

Then the kings of the earth, the important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and all the slaves and free people concealed themselves in caves and among the rocks in the mountains.

Abraham approached and asked, "Will you actually destroy the righteous along with the wicked?

About 600,000 Israeli men traveled from Rameses to Succoth on foot, not counting children.

But Abram replied, "Lord GOD, what can you give me since I continue to be childless, and the heir of my household is Eliezer from Damascus?

You are not to oppress the resident alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt."

An unthinking person believes everything, but the prudent one thinks before acting.

The child grew and eventually was weaned, so Abraham threw a tremendous banquet on the very day Isaac was weaned.

"The Levitical priests the whole tribe of Levi will not have a portion or an inheritance within Israel. Instead, they will eat the burnt offerings of the LORD, because that is their inheritance.

"I spoke to you but you didn't listen. Instead you rebelled against the command of the LORD and went up to the hill country.

And I know that what he commands brings eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me."

Your descendants will return here in the fourth generation, since the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet run its course."

"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.

the Jewish people established this celebration, making it a tradition for themselves, for their descendants, and for all who joined with them that they should not fail to observe these two days each year, based on the written instructions, and at the prescribed time.

On its hem you are to make blue and purple and scarlet pomegranates, all around the skirt, with gold bells between them all the way around.

"When someone is infected with a boil, but after it's healed,

For even the Messiah did not please himself. Instead, as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."

"Climb up a high mountain, you messenger of good news to Zion! Lift up your voice with strength, you messenger to Jerusalem! Lift it up! Don't be afraid! Say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!'

who comforts us in all our suffering, so that we may be able to comfort others in all their suffering, as we ourselves are being comforted by God.

"Remember the Law of Moses my servant that I gave him at Horeb for all Israel both the decrees and laws.

The pronouncement that the prophet Habakkuk perceived.

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the minds of Pharaoh and his officials changed toward the people, and they said, "What have we done in releasing Israel from serving us?"

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.

For if I pray in a foreign language, my spirit prays but my mind is not productive.

Rejoice and be extremely glad, because your reward in heaven is great! That's how they persecuted the prophets who came before you."

Father, glorify your name."

At this point Simon Peter arrived, following him, and went straight into the tomb. He observed that the linen cloths were lying there,

I considered and observed on earth the following: The race doesn't go to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor food to the wise, nor wealth to the smart, nor recognition to the skilled. Instead, timing and circumstances meet them all.

Generation after generation, every male among you is to be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, including the servant born in your house or the one purchased from a foreigner, who is not of your offspring.

"This is what you are to do to them in order to consecrate them to serve me as priests: Take a young bull, two rams without blemish,

Clap your hands, all you nations! Shout to God with a loud cry of joy!

Later, after Joseph's brothers faced the reality of their father's death, they asked themselves, "What happens if Joseph decides to hold a grudge against us? What if he pays us back in full for all the wrong things we did to him?"

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations won't shine their light; the sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon won't shine its light.

Then Jacob woke up during the night and told himself, "Surely, the LORD is in this place and I never knew it!"

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grieves his mother.

"Oh, you sinful nation! You people burdened down by iniquity! You offspring of those who keep practicing what is evil! You corrupt children! "They've abandoned the LORD; they've despised the Holy One of Israel; in their estrangement, they've walked away from me.

Nevertheless, when Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian whom Hagar had borne to Abraham making fun of Isaac,

The LORD is my inheritance and my cup; you support my lot.

At one time I was alive without any connection to the Law. But when the rule was revealed, sin sprang to life,

Be silent in the LORD's presence and wait patiently for him. Don't be angry because of the one whose way prospers or the one who implements evil schemes.

So Aaron drew near to the altar and slaughtered the calf for a sin offering on behalf of himself.

Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself, but have no love, I gain nothing.

The next day, they arrived in Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called his relatives and close friends together.

All the provincial officials, the regional authorities, the governors, and those doing the king's work supported the Jewish people because the fear of Mordecai had come over them.

At that time, flowing waters will run perennially from Jerusalem, half toward the Dead Sea and half to the Mediterranean Sea.

Jesus asked them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?" They answered him, "No."

He kept proclaiming, "The one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to bend down and untie his sandal straps.

Just as Moses and Elijah were leaving, Peter told Jesus, "Master, it's good that we're here! Let's set up three shelters one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (Peter didn't know what he was saying.)

So Judah's brothers listened to him. As the Midianite merchants were passing through, they extracted Joseph from the cistern and sold Joseph for 20 pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who then took Joseph down to Egypt.

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and the glory of kings to investigate a matter.

Therefore, I advise you to buy from me gold purified in fire so you may be rich, white clothes to wear so your shameful nakedness won't show, and ointment to put on your eyes so you may see.

Every wise woman builds up her household, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Wisdom cries out in the street; she raises her voice in the public squares.

My soul rests quietly only when it looks to God; from him comes my deliverance.

"On the first day, take branches from impressive fruit trees, branches from palm trees, boughs from thick trees, and poplars from the brooks. Then you are to rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God for seven days.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you took care of me. I was in prison, and you visited me.'

Keep on desiring the better gifts. And now I will show you the best way of all.

for this people's heart has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that they might not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

Calling a little child forward, he had him stand among them.

Then Jesus looked around and told his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!"

One man from each tribe is to accompany you, each man being the leader of his ancestral house.

These are the terms of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the Israelis in the land of Moab in addition to the covenant that he made with them in Horeb.

Everyone who enters an athletic contest practices self-control in everything. They do it to win a wreath that withers away, but we run to win a prize that never fades.

So Moses made a bronze serpent and fastened it to a pole. If a person who had been bitten by a poisonous serpent looked to the serpent, he lived.

Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you despise Zion? Why have you struck us, so that there is no healing for us? We hoped for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Iniquity is atoned for by gracious love and truth, and through fear of the LORD people turn from evil.

Sometime after this, David's son Amnon fell in love with David's other son Absalom's beautiful sister Tamar.

Jesus asked him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then the other men surged forward, took hold of Jesus, and arrested him.

Since you're saying, "We have an oracle of the LORD,' therefore this is what the LORD says: He will answer your message with this message, "Burden of the LORD,' and I'll send you away with these words: "Don't say, "Oracle of the LORD."'

"Surely there are mines for silver and places where gold is refined.

Now, our God, what can we say besides this? Because we have abandoned your commandments

At least we are not commercializing God's word like so many others. Instead, we speak with sincerity in the Messiah's name, like people who are sent from God and are accountable to God.

Right about then, Bichri's son Sheba, an ungodly man from the tribe of Benjamin, sounded a battle trumpet and announced: We've never been a part of David! We'll never gain anything from Jesse's son! It's every man to his tent, Israel!

They shall eat these things by which atonement was made at their ordination to consecrate them, but an unqualified person is not to eat because these things are holy.

If he takes another woman for himself, he may not withhold from the first her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Because God said, "You are to honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever curses father or mother must certainly be put to death.'

He asked them, "Why are you afraid, you who have little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Even though I may be untrained as an orator, I am not so in the field of knowledge. We have made this clear to all of you in every possible way.

This what the LORD says, the one who made you, formed you from the womb, and who will help you: "Don't be afraid, Jacob my servant, and Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

1From: Paul, a prisoner of the Messiah Jesus, and Timothy our brother. To: Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker,

Look at how large these letters are because I am writing with my own hand!

And there was the LORD, standing above it and telling Jacob, "I am the LORD God of your grandfather Abraham. I'm Isaac's God, too. I'm giving you and your descendants the ground on which you're sleeping.

Then Abram fell to the ground as God continued speaking to him.

A message about Egypt: "Watch out! The LORD rides on a swift cloud, and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt within them.

"Joseph is descended from a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine planted near springs of water. His branches climb over walls.

Then the Jewish leaders asked him, "You are not even 50 years old, yet you have seen Abraham?"

In the same way, the Messiah did not take upon himself the glory of being a high priest. No, it was God who said to him, "You are my Son. Today I have become your Father."

They were unaware of what was happening until the flood came and swept all of them away. That's how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

Then the LORD told Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I've hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials in order to perform these signs of mine among them,

But the son of Paul's sister heard about the ambush, so he came and got into the barracks and told Paul.

He told them, "Throw the net on the right hand side of the boat, and you'll catch some." So they threw it out and were unable to haul it in because it was so full of fish.

Six days you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work. It's a Sabbath to the LORD wherever you live.

Meanwhile, Jacob kept tending the rest of Laban's flock. Jacob took branches from white poplar trees, freshly cut almond trees, and some other trees, stripped off their bark to make white streaks, and uncovered the white part inside the branches.

His kingdom began in the region of Shinar with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.

"When they sin against you because there isn't a single human being who doesn't sin and you become angry with them and deliver them over to their enemy, who takes them away captive to the land that belongs to their enemy, whether near or far away,

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Lazy hands bring poverty, but hard-working hands lead to wealth.

Shortly before dawn, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

All the living creatures of the earth will be filled with fear and terror of you from now on, including all the creatures that fly in the sky, everything that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the ocean. They've been assigned to live under your dominion.

since they deal only with food, drink, and various washings, which are required for the body until the time when things would be set right.

We acknowledge, LORD, our wickedness, the guilt of our ancestors. Indeed, we have sinned against you.

The young lady got up at once and started to walk. She was twelve years old. Instantly they were overcome with astonishment.

After this, David gathered together again 30,000 men from all of the choicest men of Israel.

I tell all of you with certainty, this generation won't disappear until all these things take place.

A poor man who walks blamelessly is better than a fool who speaks perversely.

Come on! Let's go down there and confuse their language, so that they won't understand each other's speech."

The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the desert on the road to Shur.

The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death, and you are going back there again?"

And a harvest of righteousness is grown from the seed of peace planted by peacemakers.

The Israelis are to keep the Sabbath to make the Sabbath observance a perpetual covenant from generation to generation.

The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that makes your brother stumble, upset, or weak.

But when they cried out to the LORD, he placed darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon the Egyptians, and swallowed them up. Your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you lived in the desert for a long time.

Woe to you, Moab! You are destroyed, you people of Chemosh! He has given up his sons as fugitives and his daughters have gone into captivity to Sihon, king of the Amorites.

Then he asked him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter told him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."

But everything must be done in a proper and orderly way.

So someone ran and soaked a sponge in some sour wine. Then he put it on a stick and offered Jesus a drink, saying, "Wait! Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down!"

Meanwhile, the men who were traveling with Saul were standing speechless, for they heard the voice but didn't see anyone.

From:aThe Elder To: The chosen lady and her children, whom I genuinely love, and not only I but also all who know the truth,

Surely you have heard about the responsibility of administering God's grace that was given to me on your behalf,

As a result, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."

The crowds kept saying, "This is the prophet Jesus, the man from Nazareth in Galilee."

All the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the Middle Gate, including Nergal-sarri-usur, governor of Sinmagir, Nabu-sarrussu-ukin the high official, Nergal-sarri-user, the chief official, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

"My message is like fire or like a hammer that shatters rock, is it not?" declares the LORD.

For it is a fine thing if, when moved by your conscience to please God, you suffer patiently when wronged.

Even when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I was standing there, approving it and guarding the coats of those who were killing him.'

with purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness; with the Holy Spirit, genuine love,

He had 700 princess wives and 300 mistresses who turned his heart away from the LORD,

If the righteous receive what they are due here on earth, how much more will the wicked and the sinner.

A generation goes, a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

So Ahaz sent envoys to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, to tell him, "I am your servant and son. Save me from the king of Aram and the king of Israel, who are attacking me."

"When you go to war against your enemies and observe more horses, chariots, and soldiers than you have, don't be afraid of them, for the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt is with you.

Tremble in his presence, all the earth! Surely the inhabited world stands firm it cannot be moved.

But one of those standing there drew his sword and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

While they were walking along early the next morning, they saw the fig tree dried up to its roots.

This is what he said: LORD, you are my stone stronghold and my fortified place; you are continuously delivering me.

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

Theseare the words of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the remaining elders among the exiles, to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,

"That is how I happened to be traveling to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests.

then his master is to bring him before the judges and he is to bring him to the door or to the doorpost. His master is to pierce his ear with an awl, and he is to serve him permanently.

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

Your gracious love, LORD, reaches to the heavens; your truth extends to the skies.

Here is my covenant that you are to observe, between me and you and your descendants: Every male among you is to be circumcised.

and being firm-footed in the gospel of peace.

But mankind is born headed for trouble, just as sparks soar skyward."

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the lamb were written on them.

For I'll pour water upon thirsty ground and streams on parched land. So will I pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing upon your descendants.

So they brought what Moses had commanded to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. The entire congregation drew near and stood in the LORD's presence.

A tumult reaches to the ends of the earth because the LORD is bringing an indictment against the nations. He judges all flesh. He has given the wicked over to the sword,' declares the LORD.

Wherever there's a corpse, there the vultures will gather.

Meanwhile, I thought it best to send Epaphroditus my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need back to you.

But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they did not have any roots, they dried up.

Here's a list of the names of David's special forces: Josheb-basshebeth the Tahkemonite was head of the Three; he was nicknamed Adino the Eznite because he killed 800 men in a single battle engagement.

During the thirty-sixth year of Asa's reign, King Baasha of Israel invaded Judah and interdicted Ramah by building fortifications around it so no one could enter or leave to join King Asa of Judah.

Jesus told him, "If it's my will for him to remain until I come back, how does that concern you? You must keep following me!"

"We arrived at the place where you've sent us," they reported, "and it certainly does flow with milk and honey. Furthermore, this is its fruit,

"You are not to eat anything containing blood, engage in occult practices, or practice fortune telling.

But the heavenly Jerusalem is the free woman, and she is our spiritual mother.

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

You are to observe the Festival of Harvest, celebrating the first fruits of your work in planting the field, and the Festival of Tabernacles at the end of the year, when you gather the fruit of your work from the field.

When he was insulted, he did not retaliate. When he suffered, he did not threaten. It was his habit to commit the matter to the one who judges fairly.

I tell all of you with certainty, whoever doesn't receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never get into it at all."

If you are insulted because of the name of the Messiah, you are blessed, for the glorious Spirit of God is resting on you.

I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. I was very surprised when I saw her.

We will not boast about what cannot be evaluated. Instead, we will stay within the field that God assigned us, so as to reach even you.

When we completed our voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, greeted the brothers there, and stayed with them for one day.

There we found a ship going across to Phoenicia, so we went aboard and sailed on.

So they responded to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua asked them, "Who are you? And where did you come from?"

The one whose name was Cleopas answered him, "Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who doesn't know what happened there in the past few days?"

traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

you will lift up this song of mockery against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has come to an end! How the attacker has ceased!

I love those who love me, and those who seek me will find me.

David issued these orders:

Then Hezekiah prayed in the presence of the LORD, "LORD God of Israel! You live between the cherubim! You alone are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have fashioned the heavens and the earth.

"Son of Man," he said, "I've appointed you to be a watchman over the house of Israel. Therefore when you hear a message that comes from me, you are to warn them for me.

The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree that isn't producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Are you so foolish? Having started out with the Spirit, are you now ending up with the flesh?

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. That is why God, your God, anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness."

Jesus replied, "Are you asking this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?"

All the people of Judah made Uzziah king in place of his father Amaziah. Uzziah was sixteen years old at the time.

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, all their households, everyone who was affiliated with Korah, and all of their property.

then if I return from the Ammonites without incident, whatever comes out the doors of my house to meet me will become the LORD's, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering."

In response, the LORD sent poisonous serpents among the people to bite them. As a result, many people of Israel died.

The one who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The words that you're hearing me say are not mine, but come from the Father who sent me.

Then King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah's King Amaziah, the son of Jehoash and grandson of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh. He went to Jerusalem and demolished 400 cubits of the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.

This is what the Lord GOD says, "I'm sending four of my most destructive judgments military invasion, famine, wild animals, and pestilence into Jerusalem to destroy both human beings and livestock in it.

Now, the descendants of Reuben and descendants of Gad happened to be joint owners of a very large herd of cattle. When they observed that Jazer and Gilead were good grazing lands for cattle,

If the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one,

even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.

I'm going to do this because Abraham did what I told him to do. He kept my instructions, commands, statutes, and laws."

This order is announced by the observers, and the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over human kingdoms and grants them to whomever he desires, and he places the least important of men over them.'

Meanwhile, the Israelis had done as Moses said; they had asked the Egyptians for objects of silver and objects of gold, and for clothes.

because the Father himself loves you, and because you have loved me and believed that I came from God.

And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; You'll raise up the age-old foundations, and people will call you "Repairer of Broken Walls,' "Restorer of Streets to Live In.'

Some people brought him a deaf man who also had a speech impediment. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord.

and Jesse fathered King David.

As the righteous grow powerful, people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, people groan.

"If a murder victim is found fallen in the open country of the land that the LORD your God is about to give you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

What, then, does this mean? It means that Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking, but the selected group obtained it while the rest were hardened.

God, the LORD, has spoken. He has summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting place.

Now, did something good bring me death? Of course not! But in order that sin might be recognized as being sin, it used something good to cause my death, so that through the rule, sin might become more exposed as being sinful than ever before.

Lord, who won't fear and praise your name? For you alone are holy, and all the nations will come and worship you because your judgments have been revealed."

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

Then he came back to the disciples and told them, "You might as well keep on sleeping and resting. Look! The time is near for the Son of Man to be betrayed into the hands of sinners.

to another miraculous results; to another prophecy; to another the ability to distinguish between spirits; to another various kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

A righteous person will have many troubles, but the LORD will deliver him from them all.

So God split a hollow place that's in Lehi, and water sprang out of it. After he had taken a drink, his strength returned, and he revived. That's why it was named "En-hakkore," which is in Lehi to this day.

This is what the Lord GOD says: "Remove your turban! Take off your crown! Things aren't going to remain as they used to be. What is lowly will be exalted, and what is lofty will be brought low.

A truthful witness saves lives, but the person who lies is deceitful.

Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and 70 of the elders of Israel went up

and Annas and Caiaphas high priests, a message from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.

Along with officers in his army, David consecrated to assist in service to the descendants of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun those who prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals.

He told me, "These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord God of the spirits and of the prophets has sent his messenger to show his servants the things that must happen soon."

The woman wore purple and scarlet clothes and was adorned with gold, gems, and pearls. In her hand she was holding a gold cup filled with detestable things and the impurities of her immorality.

When Zebul, the ruler of the city, heard what Ebed's son Gaal had said, he flew into a rage.

After this, the descendants of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal. Jephunneh the Kenizzite's son Caleb told him, "You know the promise that the LORD gave Moses the man of God concerning the two of us in Kadesh-barnea.

God, endow the king with ability to render your justice, and the king's son to render your right decisions.

Are we beginning to recommend ourselves again? Unlike some people, we do not need letters of recommendation to you or from you, do we?

Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble hands.

Then he told the community, "Move away from the camps of these wicked men and don't touch anything that belongs to them. That way you won't be destroyed along with all their sins."

"When you approach a city to wage war against it, extend terms of peace.

His secret, inner heart will become known, and so he will bow down to the ground and worship God, declaring, "God is truly among you!"

"If a man beats a human being to death, he is certainly to be executed,

Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

If God has been glorified by him, God himself also will glorify the Son of Man, and he will do so quickly.

A dog that returns to its vomit is like a fool who reverts to his folly.

and told them, "You brought this man to me as one who turns the people against the government. And here in your presence I have examined him and have found him "Not Guilty' of the charges you make against him.

But if we hope for what we do not yet observe, we eagerly wait for it with patience.

I (not the Lord) say to the rest of you: If a brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she is willing to live with him, he must not abandon her.

Like an eagle stirs its nest, hovering near its young, spreading out his wings to take him and carry him on his pinions,

"So if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life injured or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.

"Therefore, Son of Man, you are to speak to the children of Israel and tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "Your ancestors also blasphemed me in their treacherous behavior against me.

They marched over the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. Fire came from God out of heaven and burned them up,

""Look, the time is coming,' declares the LORD, "when I'll fulfill the good promise that I spoke concerning the house of Israel and Judah.

Who is weak without me being weak, too? Who is caused to stumble without me becoming indignant?

Then I heard a loud voice from the Temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour the seven bowls of God's wrath on the earth."

Then the Lord added, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.

and every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, which is the same as having her head shaved.

I became its servant as God commissioned me to work for you, so that I may complete my ministry of the word of God.

You know that the saints will rule the world, don't you? And if the world is going to be ruled by you, can't you handle insignificant cases?

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.

Some speak rashly like the cutting of a sword, but what the wise say promotes healing.

These proverbs are for gaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;

When his disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to take any bread along.

Then King David addressed the entire assembly: "My son Solomon, the one whom God alone has chosen, is still young and inexperienced, and the task is great, since this structure will be a citadel to the LORD God and not for human beings.

Then Jesus stood up and asked her, "Dear lady, where are your accusers? Hasn't anyone condemned you?"

You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings you have prepared my ears to listen you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.

Now Joseph was well built and good looking. That's why, sometime later, Joseph's master's wife looked straight at Joseph and propositioned him: "Come on! Let's have a little sex!"

Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a tomb cut in the rock, in which no one had yet been laid.

Aaron is to cast lots over the two male goats one lot for the LORD and the other one for the scapegoat.

Wherever he went, whether into villages, towns, or farms, people would place their sick in the marketplaces and beg him to let them touch even the tassel of his garment, and everyone who touched it was healed.

Then he made this solemn vow: "If God remains with me, watches over me throughout this journey that I'm taking, gives me food to eat and clothes to wear,

He has no need to offer sacrifices every day like high priests do, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he sacrificed himself.

and Samson's wife went to the best man at his wedding.

What if some of the Jews were unfaithful? Their unfaithfulness cannot cancel God's faithfulness, can it?

His appearance was bright as lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.

"When you are reaping in the field, and you overlook a sheaf, don't return to get it. Let it remain for the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless everything you undertake.

At the same time also pray for us that God would open before us a door for the word so that we may tell the secret about the Messiah, for which I have been imprisoned.

Likewise, keep practicing these things: what you have learned, received, heard, and seen in me. Then the God of peace will be with you.

"He answered, "Go on your way, Daniel, because these matters are wrapped up and sealed until the time of the end.

The Jewish people struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did with their enemies as they pleased.

Now the rest of Hezekiah's actions, as well as his glorious deeds, including how he constructed the pool and the conduit to bring water into the city, are recorded in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah, are they not?

Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.

"How terrible it will be for those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the chariot, because there are so many, and in charioteers, because they are so strong but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or seek the LORD!

That prophet or diviner of dreams must be executed, because he advocated rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and because he lured you from the way in which the LORD your God instructed you to live. Purge the evil from among you."

"Instruct the Israelis that whenever a man or woman does something contained in the list of the sins of man, thereby acting treacherously against the LORD, then that person stands guilty.

After all of this, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Seraiah's son Ezra (who was the grandson of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,

When they measured it with a vessel the capacity of which was one omer, the one who gathered much did not have an excess, while the one who gathered little did not lack. They gathered exactly what each needed to eat.

In the fourth year of King Hezekiah's reign (that is, during the seventh year of Elah's son Hoshea's reign as king of Israel), King Shalmaneser from Assyria invaded Samaria and besieged it.

Both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to foolish people, I am a debtor.

Their destiny is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on worldly things.

Therefore these days were called , from the word . Because of all that was written in this letter, because of what they experienced in this matter, and because of what happened to them,

Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not use trickery or pervert God's word. By clear statements of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

A day of doom and gloom, a day of clouds and shadows like the dawn spreads out to cover the mountains a people strong and robust. Never has there been anything like it, neither will anything follow to compare with it, even through the lifetime of generation upon generation."

So the LORD gave all of the land to Israel that he had promised to give their ancestors, and they took possession and settled there in it.

While they were discussing and analyzing what had happened, Jesus himself approached and began to walk with them,

Then he told them, "That is why every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom from heaven is like the master of a household who brings both new and old things out of his treasure chest."

Then you committed immorality with your neighbors, the Egyptians, with perverted lust, and by doing so you fornicated even more, provoking me to anger.

"You are to make a curtain of blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine woven linen. You are to make it with cherubim skillfully worked into it.

The ten horns and the beast you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her abandoned and naked. They will eat her flesh and burn her up with fire,

Moreover, all these blessings will come upon you in abundance, if you obey the LORD your God:

and your children will wander throughout the wilderness for 40 years. They'll bear the consequences of your idolatries until your bodies are entirely consumed in the wilderness.

because all the others contributed to the offering out of their surplus, but she, in her poverty, dropped in everything she had to live on."

Keep deception and lies far away from me, and give me neither poverty nor wealth. Feed me with food that I need for today,

Then Jesus left the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to him and asked, "Explain to us the parable about the weeds in the field."

While they were there, the time came for her to have her baby,

and said, "I have taken an oath to swear by myself," declares the LORD, "that since you have carried this out and have not withheld your only unique son,

Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority confirming this second letter about Purim.

Teach me your ways, LORD, that I may walk in your truth; let me wholeheartedly revere your name.

The humble will inherit the land; they will take in abundant peace.

For the mountains may collapse and the hills may reel, but my gracious love will not depart from you, neither will my covenant of peace totter," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

He took her by the hand and told her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Young lady, I tell you, get up!"

Discipline your son while there is still hope but don't set your heart on his destruction.

Then the king told his servants, "Tie his hands and feet, and throw him into the darkness outside!' In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth,

He said, "These four great animals are four kings who will rise to power from the earth.

Then I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire. Those who had conquered the beast, its image, and the number of its name were standing on the sea of glass holding God's harps in their hands.

They are no longer to slaughter their sacrifices to the goat demons, with whom they have been committing prostitution. This will be a perpetual statute for you throughout your generations.

Suddenly, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Jesus.

because the LORD had ordered Moses:

His sons used to travel to each other's houses in turn on a regular schedule and hold festivals, inviting their three sisters to celebrate with them.

The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing both the evil and the good.

He revives my life; he leads me in pathways that are righteous for the sake of his name.