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because he will be great in the Lord's presence. He will never drink wine or any strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born.
I've told you this, so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
The Pharisees, however, went out and plotted against Jesus to kill him.
Then Jesus went into the Temple, threw out everyone who was selling and buying in the Temple, and overturned the moneychangers' tables and the chairs of those who sold doves.
For people who go to sleep, go to sleep at night; and people who get drunk, get drunk at night.
and that everyone who believes in him is justified and freed from everything that kept you from being justified by the Law of Moses.
Will a lion roar in the forest without having found its prey? Will a young lion cry from its den without having caught anything?
But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up himself, not openly but, as it were, in secret.
So the Jewish leaders told the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.
He has commanded mankind: "To fear the Lord that is wisdom; to move away from evil that is understanding.'"
I'm not going to forsake you like orphans. I will come back to you.
"The coming day is certainly going to burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and all who practice evil will be stubble the coming day will set them on fire," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with endless rivers of oil? Am I to give my firstborn to pay for my rebellion, the fruit of my body in exchange for my soul?
Others, wanting to test Jesus, kept asking him for a sign from heaven.
Do not be concerned about your own interests, but also be concerned about the interests of others.
The soul who sins dies. The son won't bear the punishment of his father's sin and the father won't bear the punishment of his son's sin. The righteous deeds of that righteous person will be attributed to him, while the wicked deeds of the wicked person will be charged against him.
"To the messenger of the church in Philadelphia, write: "The one who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens a door that no one can shut, and who shuts a door that no one can open, "says this:
I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise will be in my mouth continuously.
"Look! Today I have set before you life and what is good, along with death and what is evil.
For the weapons of our warfare are not those of the world. Instead, they have the power of God to demolish fortresses. We tear down arguments
He is the one who will go before the Lord with the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, and to prepare the people to be ready for the Lord."
Because everything will soon come to an end, be sensible and clear-headed, so you can pray.
The road of the upright circumvents evil, and whoever watches how he lives preserves his life.
We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain.
Since we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also be guided.
Such people are false apostles, dishonest workers who are masquerading as apostles of the Messiah.
I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.
For it is written, "You must be holy, because I am holy."
"His master told him, "Well done, good and trustworthy servant! Since you've been trustworthy with a small amount, I'll put you in charge of a large amount. Come and share your master's joy!'
For this reason, when I come I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with that, he refuses to receive the brothers. He even tries to stop those who want to accept them and throws them out of the church.
I tell you, he will give them justice quickly. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
Now I rejoice in the Lord greatly, because once again you have shown your concern for me. Of course, you were concerned for me but you did not have an opportunity to show it.
For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you, who know better, eating in an idol's temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won't he?
To: Everyone in Rome, loved by God and called to be holy. May grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, be yours!
For by him you have become rich in every way in speech and knowledge of every kind
How blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
For as in Adam all die, so also in the Messiah will all be made alive.
Since it was the Preparation Day, the Jewish leaders did not want to leave the bodies on the crosses during the Sabbath, because that was a particularly important Sabbath. So they asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.
"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but what has been revealed belongs to us and to our children forever, so that we might observe the words of this Law."
For this is what the LORD says, who created the heavens he is God, and the one who formed the earth and made it, and he is the one who established it; he didn't create itfor chaos, but formed it to be inhabited "I am the LORD and there is no other.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful and worship God in reverence and fear in a way that pleases him.
Furthermore, everyone who wishes to repatriate from any territory where he now resides is to receive assistance from his fellow residents in the form of silver, gold, equipment, and pack animals, in addition to voluntary offerings for the Temple of the God of Jerusalem.
"Let everyone listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give the privilege of eating from the tree of life that is in God's paradise.'"
To the Israelis belong the patriarchs, and from them, the Messiah descended, who is God over all, the one who is forever blessed. Amen.
How blessed and holy are those who participate in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them. They will be priests of God and the Messiah, and will rule with him for a thousand years.
The LORD told Hosea, "Name the child "Jezreel,' because in a little while I'll avenge the blood that was shed by Jehu's dynasty at Jezreel. I'll put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
And when he had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in the cross.
Though claiming to be wise, they became fools
They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated, and one rested on each of them.
These were the things he said. Then after this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm leaving to wake him up."
Now one of the criminals hanging there kept insulting him, "You are the Messiah, aren't you? Save yourself"and us!"
He also told them, "Go eat the best food, drink the best wine, and give something to those who have nothing, since this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be sorrowful, because the joy of the LORD is your strength."
"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give this testimony to you for the churches. I am the root and descendant of David, the bright morning star."
You became imitators of us and of the Lord. In spite of a great deal of suffering, you welcomed the word with the joy that the Holy Spirit produces.
But I tell you not to resist an evildoer. On the contrary, whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.
in understanding proverbs, clever sayings, words of the wise, and their riddles.
You ask for something but do not get it because you ask for it for the wrong reason for your own pleasure.
and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us.
"Notice their arrogance they have no inward uprightness but the righteous will live by their faith.
Going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat repairing their nets.
The Pharisees saw this and asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!
For I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin.
Think of us as servants of the Messiah and as servant managers entrusted with God's secrets.
Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong; because he poured out his life to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he carried the sins of many, and made intercession for their transgressions."
"Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through the voice of David about Judas, who was the guide for those who arrested Jesus,
When I was on my way to Macedonia, I urged you to stay in Ephesus so that you could instruct certain people to stop teaching false doctrine
"""Now therefore this is what you are to tell my servant David: "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "I took you from the pasture myself from tending sheep to become Commander-in-Chief over my people, that is, over Israel.
Then the LORD sent a great wind over the sea, and a severe storm broke out. It seemed as if the ship were about to break up.
See to it, my brothers, that no evil, unbelieving heart is found in any of you, as shown by your turning away from the living God.
Whoever says, "I love God," but hates his brother is a liar. The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love the God whom he has not seen.
This is why the Messiah is the mediator of a new covenant; so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance promised them, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the offenses committed under the first covenant.
But someone may say, "You have faith, and I have actions." Show me your faith without any actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions.
A few days later, Paul told Barnabas, "Let's go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they're doing."
You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
From: Paul an apostle not sent from men or by a man, but by Jesus the Messiah, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead
When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."
"See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, because I tell you, their angels in heaven always have access to my Father in heaven.
He kept repeating, "Abba! Father! All things are possible for you. Take this cup away from me. Yet not what I want but what you want."
Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, "Sit down here while I pray."
What my Father has given me is more important than anything, and no one can snatch it from the Father's hand.
As they came to Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to Jesus and begged him to touch him.
We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep on obeying him."
My brothers, if one of you wanders away from the truth and somebody brings him back,
Everything is clean to those who are clean, but nothing is clean to those who are corrupt and unbelieving. Indeed, their very way of thinking and their consciences have been corrupted.
"Listen, people! All of you! Earth! Pay attention, and all you inhabitants of it! May the Lord GOD be a witness against you the Lord from his holy Temple.
Wisdom is of utmost importance, therefore get wisdom, and with all your effort work to acquire understanding.
Now some people were even bringing their infants to Jesus to have him touch them. But when the disciples saw this, they sternly told the people not to do that.
"Look! I will make you insignificant among the nations; you will be utterly despised.
"Furthermore, what have you to do with me, Tyre, Sidon, and all the sea coasts of Philistia? Are you taking revenge on me? If you are taking revenge on me, I'll send it back on you swiftly and promptly,
Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget or turn aside from the words of my mouth!
let us continue to come near with sincere hearts in the full assurance that faith provides, because our hearts have been sprinkled clean from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with pure water.
"Whenever you fast, don't be gloomy like the hypocrites, because they put on sad faces to show others they are fasting. I tell all of you with certainty, they have their full reward!
Simeon has explained how God first showed his concern for the gentiles by taking from among them a people for his name.
calling the light "day," and the darkness "night." The twilight and the dawn were day one.
Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad."
If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?
The person who listens to you listens to me, and the person who rejects you rejects me. The person who rejects me rejects the one who sent me."
"The Lord GOD has given me a learned tongue, so that I may know how to sustain the weary with words. And morning after morning he wakens, and he wakens my ear to listen like those who are being taught.
One day, as Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of the Law happened to be sitting nearby. The people had come from every village in Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was present to heal them.
My son, don't forget my instruction, and keep my commandments carefully in mind.
I will instruct you and teach you concerning the path you should walk; I will direct you with my eye.
As they continued on, talking as they went, suddenly chariots blazing with fire and pulled by fiery horses appeared, separated the two of them, and Elijah ascended in a wind storm to heaven!
Now you are the Messiah's body and individual parts of it.
Shout to the LORD all the earth!
I am in them, and you are in me. May they be completely one, so that the world may know that you sent me and that you have loved them as you loved me.
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he punishes every son he accepts."
But there will be no gloom for her who was in distress. Formerly, he brought contempt to the region of Zebulun and the region of Naphtali, but in the future he will have made glorious the way of the sea, the territory beyond the Jordan Galilee of the nations.
Hannah made a vow: "LORD of the Heavenly Armies, if you just look at the misery of your maid servant, remember me, and don't forget your maid servant. If you give your maid servant a son, then I'll give him to the LORD for all the days of his life, and a razor is never to touch his head."
Then his disciples went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the signs that accompanied it.
Then the dragon stood on the sand of the seashore.
The dragon became angry with the woman and went away to do battle against the rest of her children, the ones who keep God's commandments and hold on to the testimony about Jesus.
Jesus answered him, "It is written, "One must not live on bread alone, but on every word of God.'"
"Repent, because the kingdom from heaven is near!"
Now one of those eating with him heard this and told him, "How blessed is the person who will eat in the kingdom of God!"
Keep your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on the earth.
Now before faith came about, we were held in custody and confined under the Law in preparation for the faith that was to be revealed.
Your word is forever, LORD; it is firmly established in heaven.
"A prophet or a diviner of dreams may arise among you, give you an omen or a miracle
That very day the LORD made this covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your descendants, from the river of Egypt to the great Euphrates River
"But after the suffering of those days, "The sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
Meanwhile, Moab's King Mesha was a sheep breeder. He used to pay 100,000 lambs and the wool from 100,000 rams to the king of Israel as tribute.
"So don't ever worry by saying, "What are we going to eat?' or "What are we going to drink?' or "What are we going to wear?'
That hope, firm and secure like an anchor for our souls, reaches behind the curtain
After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name.
Now, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we can understand the things that were freely given to us by God.
After Moses, the servant of the LORD, had died, the LORD spoke to Nun's son Joshua, announcing to him,
"As for your male and maid slaves who will be with you, you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations.
For just as through one man's disobedience many people were made sinners, so also through one man's obedience many people will be made righteous.
Another angel came out of the Temple, crying out in a loud voice to the one who sat on the cloud, "Swing your sickle, and gather the harvest, for the hour has come to gather it, because the harvest of the earth is fully ripe."
What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is infected by death?
But he delights in the LORD's instruction, and meditates in his instruction day and night.
for God is not a God of disorder but of peace.
But thanks be to God! He always leads us triumphantly by the Messiah and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of knowing him.
For the Messiah is the culmination of the Law as far as righteousness is concerned for everyone who believes.
When they heard this, they all raised their voices to God and said, "Master, you made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.
May peace be with you! Your friends greet you. Greet each of our friends by name.
That servant who knew what his master wanted but didn't prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating.
He himself existed before anything else did, and he holds all things together.
Moreover, because of my imprisonment the Lord has caused most of the brothers to become confident to speak God's word more boldly and courageously than ever before.
When I saw him, I fell down at his feet like a dead man. But he placed his right hand on me and said, "Stop being afraid! I am the first and the last,
While he was going and they were gazing up toward heaven, two men in white robes stood right beside them.
so that they might look for God, somehow reach for him, and find him. Of course, he is never far from any one of us.
This suggestion pleased the whole group. So they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a gentile convert to Judaism from Antioch.
You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? The mouth speaks about what overflows from the heart.
Now Anna, a prophetess, was also there. She was a descendant of Phanuel from the tribe of Asher. She was very old, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage,
As a result, they both understood what they had done, and they became aware that they were naked. So they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
"When you enter the land that the LORD your God is about to give you, don't learn the detestable practices of those nations there.
I tell all of you with certainty, this generation won't disappear until these things happen.
Now there were women watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of young James and Joseph, and Salome.
Look! I'm rebuking your descendants because of you, and I'll spread waste on your faces, the waste of your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.
"Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD, "yet I loved Jacob, hated Esau, turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to desert jackals.
Think of our Lord's patience as facilitating salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.
Jesus told him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell what you own and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."
These women are always studying but are never able to arrive at a full knowledge of the truth.
Now concerning the collection for the saints, you should follow the directions I gave to the churches in Galatia.
"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
and that the Messiah would make his home in your hearts through faith. Then, having been rooted and grounded in love,
"Now Israel, what does the LORD your God desire from you? Only this: fear him, walk in all his ways, love him, serve him with all your heart and in all your life,
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires.
Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant.
Now Jesus looked up and saw rich people dropping their gifts into the offering box.
Look how good and how pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!
But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."
Carrying the cross all by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
You'll hear of wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you aren't alarmed. These things must take place, but the end hasn't come yet,
For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, you will not allow your holy one to experience corruption.
Indeed, I cannot decide between the two. I have the desire to leave this life and be with the Messiah, for that is far better.
Then they asked each other, "Our hearts kept burning within us as he was talking to us on the road and explaining the Scriptures to us, didn't they?"
"If you keep your feet from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's holy day honorable; and if you honor it by not going your own ways and seeking your own pleasure or speaking merely idle words,
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead.
This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
At least the living know they will die, but the dead know nothing; they no longer have a reward, since memory about them has been forgotten.
Some time later, when his children were celebrating in their oldest brother's house,
Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began to preach the Messiah to the people.
For in this city both Herod and Pontius Pilate actually met together with unbelievers and the people of Israel to oppose your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,
But Peter said, "Absolutely not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean!"
Therefore, since the Messiah suffered in a mortal body, you, too, must arm yourselves with the same determination, because the person who has suffered in a mortal body has stopped sinning,
And never bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.'
"For this is what the high and lofty One says, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "He lives in the height and in holiness, and also with the one who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Therefore, we ought to support such people so that we can become genuine helpers with them.
Then they sent some Pharisees and some Herodians to him, intending to trap him in what he said.
From: Paul, called to be an apostle of the Messiah Jesus by the will of God, and from our brother Sosthenes.
However, Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold, but I'll give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus the Messiah from Nazareth, walk!"
"He never sinned, and he never told a lie."
Then the apostles, the elders, and the whole church decided to choose some of their men to send with Paul and Barnabas to Antioch. These were Judas, who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, who were leaders among the brothers.
This is how you can recognize God's Spirit: Every spirit who acknowledges that Jesus the Messiah has become human and remains so is from God.
This Moses is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai and to our ancestors. He received living truths to give to us,
He presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom from heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.
"But I tell you, my friends, never be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can't do anything more.
Be shepherds of God's flock that is among you, watching over it, not because you must but because you want to, and not greedily but eagerly, as God desires.
If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray that God would give him life. This applies to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not telling you to pray about that.
Jesus asked him, "Why ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you want to get into that life, you must keep the commandments."
King Herod heard about this, because Jesus' name had become well-known. He was saying, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead! That's why he is able to do these miracles."
Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in union with the Messiah Jesus will be persecuted.
I glorified you on earth by completing the task you gave me to do.
Then he left and went to the Mount of Olives, as usual. The disciples went with him.
"Study and read from the book of the LORD: And not one will be missing, each will not long for its mate. For it is the mouth of the LORD that has issued the order, and it is his Spirit that has gathered them.
In every way you will grow richer and become even more generous, and this will cause others to give thanks to God because of us,
But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins.
Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually caused the gospel to advance.
Meanwhile, the people had gathered by the thousands and were trampling on one another. Jesus began to speak first to his disciples. "Watch out for the yeast that is, the hypocrisy of the Pharisees!
I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries, because I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
"When you come to present yourselves in my presence, who has required you to trample on my courts?
Now it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all Israelis truly belong to Israel,
Then God removed Saul and made David their king, about whom he testified, "I have found that David, the son of Jesse, is a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my wishes.'
At once the Spirit drove him into the wilderness.
However, Jesus has now obtained a more superior ministry, since the covenant he mediates is founded on better promises.
"If a man chooses to enter into marriage with a woman, but she finds herself displeasing to him because he has found something objectionable about her, he must draw up divorce papers, hand them to her, and then send her out of his house.
raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly realm in the Messiah Jesus,
Then Jesus went up on a hillside and called to himself those whom he had decided on, and they approached him.
Keep on pursuing love, and keep on desiring spiritual gifts, especially the ability to prophesy.
I lift up my eyes toward the mountains from where will my help come?
and will come out those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.
Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and whipped.
A good person produces good from the good treasure of his heart, and an evil person produces evil from an evil treasure, because the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart."
I won't talk with you much longer, because the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me.
"Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. He will first sit down and estimate the cost to see whether he has enough money to finish it, won't he?
When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Son, your sins are forgiven."
When he knocked at the outer gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer it.
"So keep on watching, because you don't know on what day your Lord is coming.
God has appointed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who perform miracles, those who have gifts of healing, those who help others, administrators, and those who speak various kinds of languages.
"Now when these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your deliverance is approaching."
Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?
Therefore, in the Messiah Jesus I have the right to boast about my work for God.
After they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and told them everything the high priests and the elders had said.
You know that the Messiah was revealed to take away sins, and there is not any sin in him.
For he says, "At the right time I heard you, and on a day of salvation I helped you." Listen, now is really the "right time"! Now is the "day of salvation"!
Then the end will come, when after he has done away with every ruler and every authority and power, the Messiah hands over the kingdom to God the Father.
Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and told me, "Come, I will show you how the notorious prostitute who sits on many waters will be judged.
From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
Above all, brothers, do not swear oaths by heaven, by earth, or by any other object. Instead, let your "Yes" mean yes and your "No" mean no! Otherwise, you may fall under condemnation.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.
Then his mother and his brothers arrived. Milling around outside, they sent for him, continuously summoning him.
Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he went into the Most Holy Place once for all and secured our eternal redemption.
Those who manifest wisdom will shine like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who turn many to righteousness will shine like the stars for ever and ever.
Now if we preach that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, how can some of you keep claiming there is no resurrection of the dead?
When Jesus heard that, he told them, "Healthy people don't need a physician, but sick ones do. I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."
"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
But the person who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not act in faith; and anything that is not done in faith is sin.
The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water?
Then Jesus told him, "How blessed you are, Simon son of Jonah, since flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, though my Father in heaven has.
Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words won't ever disappear."
But the Sun of Righteousness will arise with healing in its light for those who fear my name. You will go out and leap like calves released from their stalls
The woman answered him, "I don't have a husband."
One time Jesus was walking through some grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.
So then, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election certain, for if you keep on doing this you will never fail.
Then he told them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, "Friend, let me borrow three loaves of bread.
But you are brought down to join the dead, to the far reaches of the Pit.
Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform God's works?"
Then the apostles told the Lord, "Give us more faith!"
so that we would praise his glorious grace that he gave us in the Beloved One.
even when we were dead because of our offenses, made us alive together with the Messiah (by grace you have been saved),
So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir because of what God did.
Wait on the LORD. Be courageous, and he will strengthen your heart. Wait on the LORD! Davidic
That is what some of you were! But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah and by the Spirit of our God.
The thief must no longer steal but must work hard and do what is good with his own hands, so that he might earn something to give to the needy.
In the third year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it.
and to clothe yourselves with the new nature, which was created according to God's image in righteousness and true holiness.
Therefore, I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without being angry or argumentative.
Flawless is the work of the Rock, because all his ways are just. A faithful God never unjust righteous and upright is he.
Therefore, as long as the promise of entering his rest remains valid, let us be afraid! Otherwise, some of you will fail to reach it,
I thank the Messiah Jesus, our Lord, who gives me strength, that he has considered me faithful and has appointed me to his service.
David continued questioning him, "How did things go? Please tell me!" He replied, "The army has fled the battlefield, many of the army are wounded or have died, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead."
The second is this: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these."
I praise you for remembering everything I told you and for holding to the traditions that I passed on to you.
Finally he appeared to his eleven disciples while they were eating. He rebuked them for their unbelief and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had risen.
In the same way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions."
That is why God says, "When he went up to the highest place, he led captives into captivity and gave gifts to people."
because I tell you, unless your righteousness greatly exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom from heaven!"
So whoever sets aside one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom from heaven. But whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom from heaven
"How blessed are those who wash their robes so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city!
What advantage, then, does the Jew have, or what value is there in circumcision?
So then, encourage one another and build each other up, as you are doing.
So if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your body parts than to have your whole body thrown into hell.
I, the LORD, am the one, and I won't give my name and glory to another, nor my praise to idols.
As they approached the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and some scribes arguing with them.
Do everything without complaining or arguing
Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.
Immediately he got into a boat with his disciples and went to the region of Dalmanutha.
"A woman must not wear what is appropriate to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment, because anyone who does this is detestable to the LORD your God.
Do you want proof, you foolish person, that faith without actions is worthless?
"If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned at the bottom of the sea.
So the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria enjoyed peace. As it continued to be built up and to live in the fear of the Lord, it kept increasing in numbers through the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.
The one who is testifying to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
Now the Law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more,
The one who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was harvested.
But when the sun came up, they were scorched. Since they didn't have any roots, they dried up.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come and tell you about God's secret with rhetorical language or wisdom.
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him. Turning to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found this kind of faith!"
If you forgive people's sins, they are forgiven. If you retain people's sins, they are retained."
"The spirit of God fashioned me; and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Charm is deceitful and beauty fades; but a woman who fears the LORD will be praised.
However, stop rejoicing because the spirits are submitting to you. Instead, rejoice because your names are written in heaven."
Jesus looked at them intently and said, "For humans it's impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God."
But when he did come out, he was unable to speak to them. Then they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. He kept motioning to them but remained unable to speak.
They told me, "The survivors of the captivity there in the province are living in great distress and shame. Furthermore, the Jerusalem wall remains broken down and its gates have been burned by fire."
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice,
For you will not abandon my soul to Hades or allow your Holy One to experience decay.
For having sorrow in a godly way results in repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets. But the sorrow of the world produces death.
In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us.
The Spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.
Everything I say is sensible to someone who understands, and correct to those who have acquired knowledge.
Some people have left these qualities behind and have turned to fruitless discussion.
Now concerning food offered to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
For wickedness doesn't crop up from dust, nor does trouble sprout out of the ground;
The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey and lead it out of its stall to give it some water?
So the man exclaimed, "At last! This is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one will be called "Woman,' because she was taken from Man."
I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I really seek: that I may remain in the LORD's Temple all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD; and to inquire in his Temple.
If you have known me, you will also know my Father. From now on you know him and have seen him."
"While I was thinking about the horns look another horn, this time a little one, grew up among them. Three of the first horns were yanked up by their roots right in front of it. Look! It had eyes like those of a human being and a mouth that boasted with audacious claims."
But since we belong to the day, let's be sober. We must put on the breastplate of faith and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
He went there to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant.
Later, he led them out as far as Bethany, lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do.
"Again, you have heard that it was told those who lived long ago, "You must not swear an oath falsely,' but, "You must fulfill your oaths to the Lord.'
so that you will become children of your Father in heaven, because he makes his sun rise on both evil and good people, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous.
for he will command his angels to protect you in all your ways.
Elkanah would do this year after year, as often as Hannah went up to the house of the LORD. Likewise, Peninnah would provoke her, and Hannah would cry and would not eat.
I am the LORD, and there is no other besides me: and there are no gods. I'm strengthening you, although you have not acknowledged me,
"From the days of John the Baptist until the present, the kingdom from heaven has been forcefully advancing, and violent people have been attacking it,
But this is not the case with the wicked. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Later, the king and his army marched on Jerusalem against the Jebusites, who were inhabiting the territory at that time and who had told David, "You're not coming in here! Even the blind and the lame could turn you away!" because they were thinking "David can't come here."
Whoever speaks must speak God's words. Whoever serves must serve with the strength that God supplies, so that in every way God may be glorified through Jesus, the Messiah. Glory and power belong to him forever and ever! Amen.
"Indeed, if you diligently obey the LORD your God to carry out all his commands that I'm giving you today, then the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
"To the messenger of the church in Sardis, write: "The one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says this:
because we do not look for things that can be seen but for things that cannot be seen. For things that can be seen are temporary, but things that cannot be seen are eternal.
Jesus told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne in the renewed creation, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, governing the twelve tribes of Israel.
Instead, we should write to them to keep away from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from anything strangled, and from blood.
"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went abroad.
There remains, therefore, a Sabbath rest for the people of God to keep,
For the whole Law is summarized in a single statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself."
Later that day, Joshua spoke to the LORD while the LORD was delivering the Amorites to the Israelis. This is what he said in the presence of Israel: "Sun, be still over Gibeon! Moon, stand in place in the Aijalon Valley!"
As for you, my child, be strong by the grace that is in the Messiah Jesus.
Join together in imitating me, brothers, and pay close attention to those who live by the example we have set for you.
I didn't recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, "The person on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'
Cast on the LORD whatever he sends your way, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
So he began to think to himself, "What should I do, since I have no place to store my crops?'
He must not be a recent convert, so that he won't become arrogant and fall into the Devil's condemnation.
A sense of fear came over everyone, and many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles.
While they were walking along the road, a man told him, "I will follow you wherever you go."
Your words were found, and I consumed them. Your words were joy and my hearts delight, because I bear your name, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies.
However, the LORD was pleased with Noah.
Do not criticize each other, brothers. Whoever makes it his habit to criticize his brother or to judge his brother is judging the Law and condemning the Law. But if you condemn the Law, you are not a practicer of the Law but its judge.
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, "Now the salvation, the power, the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Messiah have come. For the one who accuses our brothers, who accuses them day and night in the presence of our God, has been thrown out.
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors on their first trip.
His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. Then the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a very large valley, with half of the mountain moving toward the north and half toward the south.
"Look, now! In those very days and at that time, when I restore prosperity to Judah and Jerusalem,
My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions
Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we do have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven
Even the prophets, who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours, carefully researched and investigated this salvation.
Then the high priest and all those from the sect of the Sadducees who were with him were filled with jealousy. So they went out,
So he ordered the chariot to stop, and Philip and the eunuch both went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.
In you, LORD, I take refuge; let me never be humiliated.
because I was afraid of you. You are a hard man. You withdraw what you didn't deposit and harvest what you didn't plant.'
Their worship of me is worthless, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'
Like a shepherd, he tends his flock. He gathers the lambs in his arms, carries them close to his heart, and gently leads the mother sheep."
I never shrank from telling you anything that would help you nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.
(Now this man bought a field with the money he got for his crime. Falling on his face, he burst open in the middle, and all his intestines gushed out.
Now you do not need to have anything written to you about times and dates, brothers,
When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials and shouted, "These fellows who have turned the world upside down have come here, too,
You'll be thrown out of the synagogues. Yes, a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he's serving God.
How narrow is the gate and how constricted is the road that leads to life, and there aren't many people who find it!"
Then Mary said, "Truly I am the Lord's servant. Let everything you have said happen to me." Then the angel left her.
They paid careful attention to him because he had thrilled them for a long time with his occult performances.
Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and unable to talk was brought to him. Jesus healed him so that the man could speak and see.
Later that evening, a rich man arrived from Arimathea. His name was Joseph, and he had become a disciple of Jesus.
When the people saw that Moses took a long time to come down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and told him, "Come here and make us a god who will go before us, because, as for this fellow Moses who led us out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."
So tell them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "Return to me," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and I will return to you.
And if you belong to the Messiah, then you are Abraham's descendants indeed, and heirs according to the promise.
"The LORD made me as he began his planning, before his ancient activity commenced.
For the LORD is our judge, and the LORD is our lawgiver; and the LORD is our king, and it is he who will save us.
Then this message from the LORD came by Haggai the prophet:
A jealous God, the LORD avenges. The LORD avenges; The Lord is an angry husband. The LORD takes vengeance on his enemies, reserving anger for his adversaries.
And the prayer offered in faith will save the person who is sick. The Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven.
Jesus told him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."
who has also qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, which is not written but spiritual, because the written text brings death, but the Spirit gives life.
How I love your instruction! Every day it is my meditation.
However, if it continues to produce thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be burned.
I will raise up a prophet like you from among their relatives, and I will place my words in his mouth so that he may expound everything that I have commanded to them.
As Saul traveled along and was approaching Damascus, a light from heaven suddenly flashed around him.
You sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh, against all of his officials, and against all the people of his land, because you knew they acted arrogantly against your people. So you established your name with them, as it remains to this day.
In him are stored all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
I bowed down at his feet to worship him, but he told me, "Don't do that! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers who rely on what Jesus is saying. Worship God, because what Jesus is saying is the spirit of prophecy!"
David asked him, "Where did you come from? He answered him, "I just escaped from Israel's encampment."
"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral Law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today.
Stephen replied: "Listen, brothers and fathers!
Jesus called his disciples and told them, "You know that those who are recognized as rulers among the unbelievers lord it over them, and their superiors act like tyrants over them.
so that he might make it holy by cleansing it, washing it with water and the word,
Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.
"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.
All things have been entrusted to me by my Father. No one fully knows the Son except the Father, and no one fully knows the Father except the Son and the person to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
therefore this is what the LORD God says: "Look! I am laying a foundation stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a sure foundation: Whoever believes firmly will not act hastily.
God, you are my God! I will fervently seek you. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you in a dry, weary, and parched land.
I'm the bread of life.
They were to be young men without physical defect, handsome in appearance, skilled in all wisdom, quick to learn, prudent in how they used knowledge, and capable of serving in the king's palace. They were to learn the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
Jesus immediately had his disciples get into a boat and cross to Bethsaida ahead of him, while he sent the crowd away.
Whatever the devouring locust left behind the locust swarm has consumed! Whatever the locust swarm has left behind, the young locust has consumed! Whatever the young locust has left behind, the ravaging locust has consumed!"
"I made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, can I focus my attention on a virgin?
The person who is taught the word should share all his goods with his teacher.
When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom
For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
"I have given them the glory that you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.
I am John, your brother and partner in the oppression, kingdom, and patience that comes because of Jesus. I was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.
God said, "I've done this so that they may believe that the LORD God of their ancestors the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has appeared to you."
"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.
So Hazael went out to meet with him and took a gift with him 40 camel loads filled with samples of everything good in Damascus. He approached the man of God and said, "Your son King Ben-hadad from Aram has sent me to you to ask you, "Will I recover from this sickness?'"
For if their rejection results in reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance bring but life from the dead?
If anyone comes to you but does not present his teachings, do not receive him into your house or even welcome him,
For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. And if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who refuse to obey the gospel of God?
Suddenly, a sound like the roar of a mighty windstorm came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
It was already about noon, and the whole land became dark until three in the afternoon
teach us to keep account of our days so we may develop inner wisdom.
"Who is like you among the gods, LORD? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in splendor, and working wonders?
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring those who have died with him.
"I am asking on their behalf. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you gave me, because they are yours.
Just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
no weapon that is forged against you will be effective. This is the heritage of the LORD's servants, and their righteousness from me," says the LORD.
a messenger approached Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the female donkeys were grazing nearby
The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the power of Satan. He will use every kind of power, including miraculous signs, lying wonders,
Elijah the foreigner, who was an alien resident from Gilead, told Ahab, "As the LORD God of Israel lives, in whose presence I'm standing, there will be neither dew nor rain these next several years, except when I say so."
On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, all the springs of the great deep burst open, the floodgates of the heavens were opened,
Using many different expressions, Peter continued to testify and to plead: "Be saved," he urged them, "from this corrupt generation!"
Every day in the Temple and from house to house they kept teaching and proclaiming that Jesus is the Messiah.
Now as for you, keep on going until the end you'll rest and then rise to receive your reward at the end of the age.'"
They want to be teachers of the Law, yet they do not understand either what they are talking about or the things about which they speak so confidently.
and have clothed yourselves with the new nature, which is being renewed in full knowledge, consistent with the image of the one who created it.
Jesus, however, called for the children and said, "Let the little children come to me, and stop keeping them away, because the kingdom of God belongs to people like these.
So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.
But he told them, "I have to proclaim the good news about the kingdom of God in other cities, because I was sent to do that also."
The Devil also took him to a high place and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in an instant.
Then some little children were brought to him so that he might lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
Stop bringing useless offerings! Incense is detestable to me, as are your New Moons, Sabbaths, and calling of convocations. I cannot stand iniquity within a solemn assembly.
I'm not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: "The one who ate bread with me has turned against me.'
Then he went on to plead, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!"
This was to fulfill what was declared by the prophet Isaiah when he said, "It was he who took our illnesses away and removed our diseases."
Then the Jewish high priests told Pilate, "Don't write, "The King of the Jews,' but that this fellow said, "I am the King of the Jews.'"
John would say to the crowds that were coming out to be baptized by him, "You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Jesus told him, "Put your sword back in its place! Everyone who uses a sword will be killed by a sword.
The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Give us today our daily bread,
"This is what the Lord did for me when he looked favorably on me and took away my public disgrace."
This is what the LORD says: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you would build for me, and where will my resting place be?
Now the LORD had closed her womb. Her rival would provoke her severely so that she complained loudly because the LORD had closed her womb.
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he told himself, "I will never again curse the land because of human beings even though human inclinations remain evil from youth nor will I destroy every living being ever again, as I've done.
This message from the LORD came to me, asking, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I replied, "I see an almond branch."
"Because all of the people will walk, each person in the name of his God, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
The LORD God fashioned garments from animal skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
But avoid foolish controversies, arguments about genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the Law. These things are useless and worthless.
For all of us make many mistakes. If someone does not make any mistakes when he speaks, he is perfect and able to control his whole body.
He said, "From Zion the LORD roars, and from Jerusalem he shouts aloud. The shepherds' pastures will languish, and Carmel's summit will wither."
"Band together, you nations, but be shattered! Listen, all you distant countries! Strap on your armor, but be shattered.
How blessed are those whose life is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD!
Ahab complained to Jezebel about everything that Elijah had done, especially the part about him killing all the prophets of Baal with a sword.
"How terrible it will be for me!" I cried, "because I am ruined! I'm a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips! And my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies!"
"How terrible it will be for you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, spices, and every kind of herb, but you neglect justice and the love of God. These are the things you should have practiced, without neglecting the others.
Though you have not seen him, you love him. And even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,
He also ordered us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this is the one appointed by God to be the judge of the living and the dead.
and help everyone see how this secret that has been at work was hidden for ages by God, who created all things.
Then I was given a stick like a measuring rod. I was told, "Stand up and measure the Temple of God and the altar, and count those who worship there.
For as the Messiah's sufferings overflow into us, so also our comfort overflows through the Messiah.
Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling and to make you stand joyful and faultless in his glorious presence,
As he taught, he said, "Beware of the scribes! They like to walk around in long robes, to be greeted in the marketplaces,
But the man wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby jumped in her womb. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit
I am giving you my opinion on this matter because it will be helpful to you. Last year you were not only willing to do something, but had already started to do it.
But as for these enemies of mine who didn't want me to be their king bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!'"
Once more the Devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, along with their splendor.
This is the builder's son, isn't it? His mother is named Mary, isn't she? His brothers are James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas, aren't they?
Now the people were filled with expectation, and all of them were wondering if John was perhaps the Messiah.
The people were utterly amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one with authority, and not like their scribes.
The LORD is the true God; he's the living God and the everlasting king. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
Deeply distressed, she prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly.
Then Moses and the Israelis sang this song to the LORD: "I'll sing to the LORD, for he is highly exalted. The horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.
For you know very well that no immoral or impure person, or anyone who is greedy (that is, an idolater), has an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.
And so the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." And so he was called God's friend.
So if they say to you, "Look! He's in the wilderness,' don't go out looking for him. And if they say, "Look! He's in the storeroom,' don't believe it,
The power of the tongue is life and death those who love to talk will eat what it produces.
Then I saw in the right hand of the one who sits on the throne a scroll written on the inside and on the outside, sealed with seven seals.
and with every living creature that is with you the flying creatures, the livestock, and all the wildlife of the earth that are with you all the earth's animals that came out of the ark.
The young woman was absolutely beautiful. She served the king and was very useful to him. The king was not sexually involved with her.
For this reason, I am reminding you to fan into flames the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands.
Stunned and amazed, they asked, "All of these people who are speaking are Galileans, aren't they?
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I don't belong to the world.
If they had been thinking about what they had left behind, they would have had an opportunity to go back.
Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.
Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, told them, "Rulers and elders of the people!
Tear your hearts, not your garments; and turn back to the LORD your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to become angry, overflowing in gracious love, and grieves about this evil.
Do not put out the Spirit's fire.
He told them, "The secret about the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside, everything comes in parables
A certain man lived in Ramathaim-zophim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim. He was Jeroham's son Elkanah, the grandson of Elihu and grandson of Tohu, who was the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills everything in every way.
Therefore, let's no longer criticize each other. Instead, make up your mind not to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
Your beauty should not be an external one, consisting of braided hair or the wearing of gold ornaments and dresses.
After saying this, Jesus was deeply troubled in spirit and declared solemnly, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, one of you is going to betray me!"
"How terrible it will be for those women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days! because there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my stronghold in whom I take refuge, my shield, the glory of my salvation, and my high tower."
Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.
Go to the ant, you lazy man! Observe its ways and become wise.
Then he told us how he had seen an angel standing in his home and saying, "Send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter.
Then the Pharisees went and planned how to trap Jesus in conversation.
and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.
And you, Capernaum! You won't be lifted up to heaven, will you? You'll go down to Hell!
but he would give twice as much to Hannah because he loved her.
Its prophets are arrogant and treacherous. Its priests have contaminated the sanctuary. They give perverse interpretations of the Law.
We need such a high priest one who is holy, innocent, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.
"Shout aloud! Don't hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their rebellions, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
"Don't remember the former things; don't dwell on things past.
Continue to live such upright lives among the gentiles that, when they slander you as practicers of evil, they may see your good actions and glorify God when he visits them.
So remember your Creator during your youth! Otherwise, troublesome days will come and years will creep up on you when you'll say, "I find no pleasure in them,"
They claim to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good.
After the Sabbath ends, each of you should set aside and save something from your surplus in proportion to what you have, so that no collections will have to be made when I arrive.
Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all your ability, because there is no work, no planning, no learning, and no wisdom in the next world where you're going.
A servant of the Lord must not argue. Instead, he must be kind to everyone, teachable, willing to suffer wrong,
Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.
The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. Placed among the parts of our bodies, the tongue contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.
After these things, I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a large crowd in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, glory, and power belong to our God.
But the Israelis were fruitful and increased abundantly. They multiplied in numbers and became very, very strong. As a result, the land was filled with them.
So they conducted a search throughout the territory of Israel for a beautiful young woman, and Abishag the Shunammite was located and brought to the king.
For we declare to you what the Lord has told us to say: We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have died.
I will give my two witnesses who wear sackcloth the authority to prophesy for 1,260 days."
For some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. They were written about long ago as being deserving of this condemnation because they are ungodly. They turn the grace of our God into uncontrollable lust and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus the Messiah.
Remember what I told you: "A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures
For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the Law, but through the righteousness produced by faith.
what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him?
who was one of the men associated with us all the time the Lord Jesus came and went among us,
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; for those living in a land of deep darkness, a light has shined upon them.
In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like large drops of blood falling on the ground.
A man with many friends can still be ruined, but a true friend sticks closer than a brother.
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, and took his cloak as well. The cloak was seamless, woven in one piece from the top down.
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
Then the day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb was to be sacrificed.
Everyone will see the salvation that God has provided.'"
However, it is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be dropped.
He will change our unassuming bodies and make them like his glorious body through the power that enables him to bring everything under his authority.
But God chose what is nonsense in the world to make the wise feel ashamed. God chose what is weak in the world to make the strong feel ashamed.
When he answered, the LORD told me: "Write out the revelation, engraving it clearly on the tablets, so that a courier may run with it.
his feet were like glowing bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of raging waters.
You, too, must be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac he who had received the promises was about to offer his unique son in sacrifice,
"I know your actions, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.
He cuts off every branch that does not produce fruit in me, and he cuts back every branch that does produce fruit, so that it might produce more fruit.
Abraham fathered Isaac, Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers.
The king used to go to Gibeon to sacrifice, since there was a famous high place there, where Solomon once offered 1,000 burnt offerings on that altar.
Now may God, the source of endurance and encouragement, allow you to live in harmony with each other as you follow the Messiah Jesus,
So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you must also wash one another's feet.
Humble yourselves in the Lord's presence, and he will exalt you.
So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.
Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and hold fast to their faithfulness in Jesus:
Now devout Jews from every nation on earth were living in Jerusalem.
He will keep you strong until the end, so that you will be blameless on the Day of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him with an oath to put one of his descendants on his throne,
So the other disciples kept telling him, "We've seen the Lord!" But he told them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger into them, and put my hand into his side, I'll never believe!"
in the hope that I can make my people jealous and save some of them.
Now what does this "he went up" mean except that he also had gone down into the lower parts of the earth?
Tell me, those of you who want to live under the Law: Are you really listening to what the Law says?
Herod flew into a rage when he learned that he had been tricked by the wise men, so he ordered the execution of all the male children in Bethlehem and all its neighboring regions, who were two years old and younger, according to the time that he had determined from the wise men.
For if through my falsehood God's truthfulness glorifies him even more, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
"Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say "Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.
because whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and for the gospel will save it.
He is not here. He has been raised, just as he said. Come and see the place where he was lying.
The Devil also took him into Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the Temple. He told Jesus, "Since you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,
Is there any God like you, forgiving iniquity, passing over transgressions by the survivors who are your heritage? He is not angry forever, because he delights in gracious love.
Suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, rocks were split open,
these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will rise up to be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for everyone."
With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in God's likeness.
Then Jesus taught in one town and village after another as he made his way to Jerusalem.
For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe through the nonsense of our preaching.
The apostles came back and told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them away with him privately to a city called Bethsaida.
"But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, "Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'
Meanwhile, each crewman told another, "Come on! Let's cast lots to find out whose fault it is that we're in this trouble." So they cast lots, and the lot indicated Jonah!
But if the Messiah is in you, your bodies are dead due to sin, but the spirit is alive due to righteousness.
God fashioned two great lights the larger light to shine during the day and the smaller light to shine during the night as well as stars.
For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will be destroyed.
"Look, you're trusting in deceptive words that cannot benefit.
"Woe to those who are craving the Day of the LORD! How is it to your benefit, this Day of the LORD? It's a day of darkness to you, and not light.
And when an alarm sounds in the city, the people will tremble, won't they? If there is trouble in a city, the LORD has brought it about, has he not?"
I waited expectantly for the LORD, and he took notice of me and heard my cry.
I had a dream that made me afraid. The thoughts that went through my mind while in bed and the visions in my head terrified me.
Even though he kills me, I'll continue to hope in him. At least I'll be able to argue my case to his face!
Moses was faithful in all God's household as a servant who was to testify to what would be said later,
Brothers, think about your own calling. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from citizenship in Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise. You had no hope and were in the world without God.
and he isn't served by people as if he needed anything. He himself gives everyone life, breath, and everything else.
But if you slaughter this people all at the same time, then the nations who heard about your fame will say,
The latter are motivated by love, because they know that I have been appointed to defend the gospel.
And those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
This is the vision that Amoz's son Isaiah had about Judah and Jerusalem during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
For you have been given the privilege for the Messiah's sake not only to believe in him but also to suffer for him.
Jesus said, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or fields because of me and the gospel
However, false brothers were secretly brought in. They slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in the Messiah Jesus so that they might enslave us.
Therefore, accept one another, just as the Messiah accepted you, for the glory of God.
Moses told God, "Look! When I go to the Israelis and tell them, "The God of your ancestors sent me to you,' they'll say to me, "What is his name?' What should I say to them?"
He has sent his word to the descendants of Israel and brought them the good news of peace through Jesus the Messiah. This man is the Lord of everyone.
For when he died, he died once and for all as far as sin is concerned. But now that he is alive, he lives for God.
The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"
"I will heartily rejoice in the LORD, my soul will delight in my God; for he has wrapped me in garments of salvation; he has arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, just like a bridegroom, like a priest with a garland, and like a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
to usher in the fullness of the times and to bring together in the Messiah all things in heaven and on earth.
When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?"
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, reverently prepared an ark to save his family, and by faith he condemned the world and inherited the righteousness that comes by faith.
It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.
"But I tell you, the Son of Man will acknowledge before God's angels everyone who acknowledges me before people.
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the Law, but one that comes through the faithfulness of the Messiah, the righteousness that comes from God and that depends on faith.
Stop being deceived: "Wicked friends lead to evil ends."
Blessed is the person who trusts in the LORD, making the LORD his trust.
Wine causes mocking, and beer causes fights; everyone led astray by them lacks wisdom.
Look! This was the sin of your sister Sodom and her daughters: Pride, too much food, undisturbed peace, and failure to help the poor and needy.
so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
some divine beings noticed how attractive human women were, so they took wives for themselves from a selection that pleased them.
In mounting terror, the men asked him, "What have you done?" The men were aware that he was fleeing from the LORD, because he had admitted this to them.
They forced a certain passer-by named Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who happened to be coming in from the country, to carry Jesus' cross.
Elkanah her husband told her, "Hannah, why are you crying and why don't you eat? Why are you upset? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
All sinners among my people will die by the sword, especially all who are saying, "Disaster will not come upon or conquer us!'"
"That is why a man will leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
Then they left that place and passed through Galilee. Jesus didn't want anyone to find out about it,
My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not let go of your mother's teaching.
Samuel said, "Does the LORD delight as much in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the LORD? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.
In a similar way, these dreamers also defile their flesh, reject the Lord's authority, and slander his glorious beings.
A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough.
Later on, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (though a secret one because he was afraid of the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, and he came and removed his body.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed.
so that you might live in a manner worthy of the Lord and be fully pleasing to him as you bear fruit while doing all kinds of good things and growing in the full knowledge of God.
Come! Let us worship and bow down; let us kneel in the presence of the LORD, who made us.
to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to a judge who is the God of all, to the spirits of righteous people who have been made perfect,
Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Decide for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
How am I to present myself in the LORD's presence and bow in the presence of the High God? Should I present myself with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
When I heard this, I sat down and cried, mourning for a number of days while I fasted and prayed in the presence of the God of Heaven.
"The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
For they are God's servants, working for your good.
After he had expelled the man, the LORD God placed winged angels at the eastern end of the garden of Eden, along with a fiery, turning sword, to prevent access to the tree of life.
How were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I did not bother you for help? Forgive me for this wrong!
Then the LORD told me, "Don't say, "I'm only a young man,' for you will go everywhere I send you, and you will speak everything I command you.
The person who isn't with me is against me, and the person who isn't gathering with me is scattering.
Then we'll devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Absolutely pointless; everything is pointless."
To the one who conquers I will give a place to sit with me on my throne, just as I have conquered and have sat down with my Father on his throne.
How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance.
In response, the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin, the priests and descendants of Levi, and all those who had been prompted by God, prepared to travel to rebuild the Temple of the LORD, which was in Jerusalem.
We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from this body and to live with the Lord.
He must turn away from evil and do good. He must seek peace and pursue it.
The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were over. This is the first resurrection.
Now all the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their time doing nothing else other than listening to the latest ideas or repeating them.
So Jephthah escaped from his brothers and lived in the territory of Tob, where worthless men gathered themselves around him and went out on raiding parties with him.
For he will repay everyone according to what that person has done:
Why, then, was the Law added? Because of transgressions, until the descendant came about whom the promise pertained. It was put into effect through angels by means of a mediator.
The God of our ancestors raised Jesus to life after you killed him by hanging him on a tree.
Their worship of me is empty, because they teach human rules as doctrines.'"
Go and learn what this means: "I want mercy and not sacrifice,' because I did not come to call righteous people, but sinners."
Then Philip began to speak, and, starting from this Scripture, he told him the good news about Jesus.
Each of the four living creatures had six wings and were full of eyes inside and out. Without stopping day or night they were saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, and who is coming."
God said, "Please take your son, your unique son whom you love Isaac and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering there on one of the mountains that I will point out to you."
In the same way, I tell you that there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents."
But when John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he told them, "You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."
"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!
the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flaming fire from the center of a bush. As Moses continued to watch, amazingly the bush kept on burning, but was not consumed.
This is the one about whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks above me, because he existed before me.'
So Pilate went back into the governor's headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"
You made them a kingdom and priests for our God, and they will reign on the earth."
"Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not listen to them. In fact, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they were so wicked in what they were doing."
"This is what the LORD says, your Redeemer and the one who formed you in the womb: "I am the LORD, who has made everything, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth Who was with me at that time?
communing with God and then he was there no longer, because God had taken him.
"Sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves wallets that don't wear out a dependable treasure in heaven, where no thief can get close and no moth can destroy anything.
when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be regarded with wonder on that day by all who have believed including you, because you believed our testimony.
If anyone teaches false doctrine and refuses to agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and godly teaching,
"Men, why are you doing this? We are merely human beings with natures like yours. We are telling you the good news so you'll turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them.
"Please observe Behemoth, which I made along with you. He eats grass like an ox.
As she continued to pray in the LORD's presence, Eli was watching her mouth.
Because the sea was growing more and more stormy, they asked him, "What do we have to do to you so the sea will calm down for us?"
in whom the whole body is united and held together by every ligament with which it is supplied. As each individual part does its job, the body builds itself up in love.
And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are those who bring the good news!"
The message that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything, not only while being watched in order to please them, but with a sincere heart, fearing the Lord.
Now this man Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest of the Most High God, met Abraham and blessed him when he was returning from defeating the kings.
Remain alert. Keep standing firm in your faith. Keep on being courageous and strong.
When the king of Egypt called for the midwives, he asked them, "Why have you done this and allowed the boys to live?"
For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery; you must not murder; you must not steal; you must not covet," and every other commandment are summed up in this statement: "You must love your neighbor as yourself."
The twilight and the dawn were the fifth day.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit.
"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and every kind of impurity.
As a result, many of his disciples turned back and no longer associated with him.
While they were yelling, tossing their coats around, and throwing dirt into the air,
He led Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him intently and said, "You are Simon, John's son. You will be called Cephas!" (which is translated "Peter").
Stand firm, therefore, having fastened the belt of truth around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
He has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so he would see again."
Jesus was driving a demon out of a man who was unable to talk. When the demon had gone out, the man began to speak, and the crowds were amazed.
Then three years later, I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him for fifteen days.
"Go!" he responded. "Tell this people: ""Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees told Jesus, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses: Mary, also called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;
Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear."
If they say, "Come with us! Let's lie in wait for blood; let's ambush some innocent person for no reason at all.
For there are many people who are rebellious, especially those who are converts from Judaism. They speak utter nonsense and deceive people.
But because of your stubborn and unrepentant heart you are reserving wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.
So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. They came and filled both boats until the boats began to sink.
The LORD stretched out his hand, touched my mouth, and then told me, "Look, I've put my words in your mouth.
So the captain approached him, and told him, "What are you doing asleep? Get up! Call on your gods! Maybe your god will think about us so we won't die!"
What, then, does this mean, brothers? When you gather, everyone has a psalm, teaching, revelation, foreign language, or interpretation. Everything must be done for upbuilding.
Even though Edom may claim, "We were crushed, but we will return and rebuild the ruins,' this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "They may rebuild, but I'll demolish. People will call them, "The Wicked Land,' and, "The People With Whom the LORD is Forever Angry.'
Then Jesus left the territory of Tyre and passed through Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the territory of the Decapolis.
I correct and discipline those whom I love, so be serious and repent!
For as I was walking around and looking closely at the objects you worship, I even found an altar with this written on it: "To an unknown god.' So I am telling you about the unknown object you worship.
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
He gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from this present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.
"When a person has sexual relations with a woman servant who is engaged to another man, but she has not been completely redeemed nor has her freedom been granted to her, there is to be an inquiry, but they won't be put to death, since she has not been freed.
Never let your mouth cause you to sin and don't proclaim in the presence of the angel, "My promise was a mistake," for why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy what you've undertaken?
As the time drew near when the LORD was about to take Elijah to heaven in a wind storm, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.
that agrees with the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
he looked ahead and spoke about the resurrection of the Messiah: "He was not abandoned to Hades, and his flesh did not experience decay.'
On the first day of the eleventh month, in the fortieth year, Moses spoke to the Israelis about everything that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
My brothers, some members of Chloe's family have made it clear to me that there are quarrels among you.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones to death those who have been sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you people were unwilling!
Jesus told the servants, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.
John also testified, "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.
Just as you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
If you understand these things, how blessed you are if you put them into practice!
A week later, his disciples were again inside, and Thomas was with them. Even though the doors were shut, Jesus came, stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you."
While he was having dinner at Matthew's home, many tax collectors and sinners arrived and began eating with Jesus and his disciples.
But he told them, "Stop being astonished! You are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised. He is not here. Look at the place where they laid him.
yet he has not abandoned his witness: he continues to do good, to give you rain from heaven, to give you fruitful seasons, and to fill you with food and your hearts with joy."
One day, while Jesus was in one of the cities, a man covered with leprosy saw Jesus and fell on his face, begging him, "Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean."
The one who's on his housetop must not come down and go into his house to take anything out of it,
He'll send out his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they'll gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to another."
I will banish chariots from Ephraim and horses from Jerusalem. War weapons will be banished, and your king will speak peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the River to the farthest portion of the earth.
Do not let anyone deceive you with meaningless words, for it is because of these things that God becomes angry with those who disobey.
At this point the mariners became terrified, and each man cried out to his gods. They began to throw the cargo into the sea in order to lighten the vessel. But Jonah had gone down into the vessel's hold, had lain down, and was fast asleep.
Don't you know that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is expelled as waste?
On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover meal?"
If you do what is appropriate, you'll be accepted, won't you? But if you don't do what is appropriate, sin is crouching near your doorway, turning toward you. Now as for you, will you take dominion over it?"
The LORD also said, "How great is the disapproval of Sodom and Gomorrah! Their sin is so very serious!
In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword. His face was like the sun when it shines with full force.
Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but the discerning man controls his comments.
Who prepares food for the raven, when its offspring cry out to God as they wander for lack of food?"
He clears the skies with his wind; his hands have pierced the fleeing serpent.
"Stop crying," one of the elders told me. "Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered. He can open the scroll and its seven seals."
"I, I am the one who blots out your transgression for my own sake, and I'll remember your sins no more.
No one will be victorious against you for the rest of your life. I'll be with you just like I was with Moses I'll neither fail you nor abandon you.
Among the lamp stands there was someone like the Son of Man. He was wearing a long robe with a gold sash around his chest.
Now it is obvious that no one is justified in the sight of God by the Law, because "The righteous will live by faith."
Supply the needs of the saints. Extend hospitality to strangers.
Observe them carefully, because this will show your wisdom and discernment in the eyes of people who'll listen to all these decrees. Then they'll say: "Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people.'
He is "the stone that was rejected by you builders, which has become the cornerstone.'
But the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. After setting her before them,
Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them, which like them committed sexual sins and pursued homosexual activities, serve as an example of the punishment of eternal fire.
As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching the necessity of circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
While I was with them, I protected them by the authority that you gave me. I guarded them, and not one of them became lost except the one who was destined for destruction, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
If anyone serves me, he must follow me. And where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him."
Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.
So then, my brothers, keep on rejoicing in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you; indeed, it is for your safety.
In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.
to serve in this office of apostle, from which Judas left to go to his own place."
"Indeed, the LORD God of Israel says that he hates divorce, along with the one who conceals his violence by outward appearances," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "So guard yourselves carefully, and don't be unfaithful."
Then the high priest asked, "Is this true?"
Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him a question, so he asked them, "Are you discussing among yourselves what I meant when I said, "In a little while you will no longer see me, then in a little while you will see me again'?
The scribes who had come down from Jerusalem kept repeating, "He has Beelzebul," and, "He drives out demons by the ruler of demons."
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground, bowed very low,
He asked them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I had to be in my Father's house?"
"Is it the right time for all of you to live in your own paneled houses while this house remains in ruins?"
Then the LORD asked Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth. The man is blameless as well as upright. He fears God and keeps away from evil."
But solid food is for mature people, whose minds are trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth. For I am God, and there is no other.
when the Sabeans attacked, captured the servants, and killed them with swords. I alone escaped to tell you!"
to serve as lights in the sky, and to shine on the earth!" And that is what happened:
So don't lose your confidence, since it holds a great reward for you.
Rather, because we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, we speak as we do, not trying to please people but God, who tests our motives.
Therefore, "Get away from them and separate yourselves from them," declares the Lord, "and don't touch anything unclean. Then I will welcome you.
When that army has been defeated, he'll become overconfident and slaughter many thousands, but he won't succeed.
She and her daughters-in-law prepared to return from the country of Moab, because she had heard while living there how the LORD had come to the aid of his people, giving them relief.
Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing securely should watch out so he doesn't fall.
The conclusion of something is better than its beginning, and a patient attitude is more valuable than a proud one.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life present in him.
For this reason, the Scriptures say, when the Messiah was about to come into the world: "You did not want sacrifices and offerings, but you prepared a body for me.
For it is we who are the circumcision we who worship in the Spirit of God and find our joy in the Messiah Jesus. We have not placed any confidence in the flesh,
I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for my departure has come.
Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom.
You used to behave like them as you lived among them.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous person his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, So he'll have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he'll pardon abundantly.
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are filled with goodness and full of all the knowledge you need to be able to instruct each other.
Therefore, let's keep on pursuing those things that bring peace and that lead to building up one another.
That way the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace of our God and Lord, Jesus, the Messiah.
So if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are dying.
Instead, I first told the people in Damascus and Jerusalem, then all the people in Judea and after that the gentiles to repent, turn to God, and perform deeds that are consistent with such repentance.
The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and say to him, "We have found the Anointed One!" (which is translated "Messiah").
It is written in the Prophets, "And all of them will be taught by God.' Everyone who has listened to the Father and has learned anything comes to me.
"How could you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord?" Peter asked her. "Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and these men will carry you outside as well."
Many plans occupy the mind of a man, but the LORD's purposes will prevail.
Later on, he told them again, "I'm going away, and you'll look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I'm going."
The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."
On their second trip, Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph introduced his family to Pharaoh.
As the day was drawing to a close, the Twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away to the neighboring villages and farms so they can rest and get some food, because we are here in a deserted place."
After this, his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and remained in seclusion for five months. She said,
But King Solomon married many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidonia, along with Hittite women, too,
"Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people from far away! The LORD called me from the womb; while I was still in my mother's body, he pronounced my name.
So you will stumble during the day, the prophet also will stumble with you at night, and I will destroy your mother.
When the priests left the Holy Place after setting the ark in place, the cloud filled the LORD's Temple
he again fixes a definite day "Today" - saying long afterward through David, as already quoted, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."
After this, the Amalekites came and fought with the Israelis at Rephidim.
However, God's solid foundation still stands. It has this inscription on it: "The Lord knows those who belong to him," and "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from evil."
LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! To the Director: Accompanied by female voices. A Davidic Psalm.
For this reason I want you to be aware that no one who is speaking by God's Spirit can say, "Jesus is cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.
So all of their neighbors equipped the travelers with silver, gold, equipment, pack animals, and valuable goods, in addition to voluntary offerings.
You are to say to Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD says: "Israel is my firstborn son.
In the same way, Abraham "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."
We certainly believe that it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, that we are saved, just as they are."
He has also held in eternal chains those angels who did not keep their own position but abandoned their assigned place. They are held in deepest darkness for judgment on the great day.
to reveal his Son to me so that I might proclaim him among the gentiles, I did not confer with another human being at any time,
After they went into the house and saw the child with his mother Mary, they fell down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasure sacks and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
After staying there for quite a while longer, Paul said goodbye to the brothers and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. He had his hair cut in Cenchrea, since he was under a vow.
The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.
Therefore, write down what you have seen, what is, and what is going to happen after this.
Now I am not praising you in giving you the following instructions. When you gather, it is not for the better but for the worse.
No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."
He appointed the Twelve, whom he called apostles, to accompany him, to be sent out to preach,
You will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the person who endures to the end will be saved.
when he made known to us the secret of his will. This was according to his plan that he set forth in the Messiah
I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. Yet if another man comes in his own name, you will accept him.
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and the holy angels.
How joyful is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding,
But remember the LORD your God, because he is the one who gives you the ability to produce wealth, in order to confirm his covenant that he promised by an oath to your ancestors, as is the case today.
Let's behave decently, as people who live in the light of day. No wild parties, drunkenness, sexual immorality, promiscuity, quarreling, or jealousy!
At that hour some Pharisees came and told Jesus, "Leave and get away from here, because Herod wants to kill you!"
being baptized by him in the Jordan River while they confessed their sins.
Whoever finds a wife finds what is good, and receives favor from the LORD.
When Jesus heard this, he left that place and went by boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of it and followed him on foot from the neighboring towns.
When Jesus came down from the hillside, large crowds followed him.
Because they are united in love, I pray that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of the Messiah, who is the mystery of God.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD grants grace and favor; the LORD will not withhold any good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
A king's heart is a water stream that the LORD controls; he directs it wherever he pleases.
Sing joyfully to God, our strength. Raise a shout to the God of Jacob.
When that desire becomes pregnant, it gives birth to sin; and when that sin grows up, it gives birth to death.
Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.
Tell this to them: "The gods who didn't make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from these heavens."
But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, "he sat down at the right hand of God."
Hannah got up after she had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the chair by the doorpost of the tent of the LORD.
But the angel of the LORD spoke to Elijah the foreigner, "Get up and go meet the messengers from the king of Samaria. Ask them "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you're going to consult with Ekron's god Baal-zebub?
No creature can hide from him, but everyone is exposed and helpless before the eyes of the one to whom we must give a word of explanation.
I can see him, but not right now. I observe him, but from a distance. A star streams forth from Jacob; a scepter arises from Israel. He will crush Moab's forehead, along with all of Seth's descendants.
Therefore, never be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me, his prisoner. Instead, by God's power, join me in suffering for the sake of the gospel.
When one of you has a complaint against another, does he dare to take the matter before those who are unrighteous and not before the saints?
"Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and the ordinances that I'm teaching you to observe so you may live and go in to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, is about to give you.
However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene.
Later on, Jabez called on the God of Israel, asking him, ""whether you would bless me again and again, enlarge my territory, keep your power with me, keep me from evil, and keep me from harm!" And God granted what he had requested.
But so what? Just this that in every way, whether by false or true motives, the Messiah is being proclaimed. Because of this, I rejoice and will continue to rejoice.
These are the names of the Israelis who entered Egypt with Jacob, each one having come with his family:
11How terrible it will be for them! For they lived like Cain did , rushed headlong into Balaam's error to make a profit, and destroyed themselves, as happened in Korah's rebellion.
So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who keep on asking him!
Now in Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord called out to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He answered, "Here I am, Lord."
You are already clean because of what I've spoken to you.
So far you haven't asked for anything in my name. Keep asking and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."
Now Crispus, the leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, along with his whole family. Many Corinthians who heard Paul also believed and were baptized.
but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail. When you have come back, you must strengthen your brothers."
so they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you're right in what you say and teach, and that you don't favor any individual, but teach the way of God truthfully.
They will neither harm nor destroy on my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea."
This is what the LORD says: "The wise man is not to boast in his wisdom; the strong man is not to boast in his strength; and the rich man is not to boast in his riches.
While Jesus was telling them these things, an official came up and fell down before him. "My daughter has just died," he said. "But come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."
Joseph, too, went up from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the City of David (called Bethlehem), because he was a descendant of the household and family of David.
"But now I am going to the one who sent me. Yet none of you asks me, "Where are you going?'
Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. Everything written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled,
"Look! God yes God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid. For the LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation."
Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was at home, he asked the disciples, "What were you arguing about on the road?"
You say, "I am rich. I have become wealthy. I don't need anything." Yet you don't realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
""The LORD also announces to you: "The LORD will himself build a house for you. When your life is complete and you go to join your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you, who will come forth from your body, and I will fortify his kingdom.
because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
As for your New Moons and your appointed festivals, I abhor them. They've become a burden to me; I've grown weary of carrying that burden.
because the creation has become subject to futility, though not by anything it did. The one who subjected it did so in the certainty
But God's free gift is not like Adam's offense. For if many people died as the result of one man's offense, how much more have God's grace and the free gift given through the kindness of one man, Jesus the Messiah, been showered on many people!
Otherwise, I'll strip her naked as she was on the day she was born make her like a wilderness, turn her into a parched land, and cause her to die of thirst.
so that by these two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge in him might be encouraged to seize the hope set before us.
So I will send down fire upon the house of Hazael, and it will devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
The LORD told Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I've rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I'm sending you to Jesse from Bethlehem because I've chosen for myself one of his sons as king."
The LORD God caused every tree that is both beautiful and suitable for food to spring up out of the ground. The tree of life was also in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus container, coated it with asphalt and pitch, placed the child in it, and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
Your own eyes will see this, and you will say, "Great is the LORD even beyond the borders of Israel!'"
"I'll consume both human beings and animals I'll consume the birds of the sky, the fish in the sea, and the wicked along with their sin, when I eliminate human beings from the land," declares the LORD.
Then I saw the lamb open the first of the seven seals. I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, "Go!"
not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, greedy, robbers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
These things happened to them to serve as an example, and they were written down as a warning for us in whom the culmination of the ages has been attained.
I am jealous of you with God's own jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to the Messiah.
Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the Law.
One man, Joseph, a descendant of Levi and a native of Cyprus, who was named Barnabas by the apostles (the name means "a son of encouragement"),
Teach them repeatedly to your children. Talk about them while sitting in your house or walking on the road, and as you lie down or get up.
But thank God that, though you were once slaves of sin, you became obedient from your hearts to that form of teaching with which you were entrusted!
There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
The one who went down is the same one who went up above all the heavens so that all things would be fulfilled.
For God's gifts and calling never change.
Lord, pay attention to their threats now, and allow your servants to speak your word boldly
But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, their stupidity will be plain to everyone.
After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you by the Messiah Jesus to his eternal glory, will restore you, establish you, strengthen you, and support you.
But if you do not forgive people their offenses, your Father will not forgive your offenses."
Do we not have one father? Has not one God created us? Why does each of us act deceitfully, each man against his own brother, to profane the covenant of our ancestors?
The Pharisees told him, "You're testifying about yourself. Your testimony isn't valid."
But Jesus rebuked him. "Be quiet," he ordered, "and come out of him!"
Now while some people were talking about the Temple how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God he said,
"How blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear!
Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee, and began teaching the people on Sabbath days.
Why are you forcing me to look at iniquity and to stare at wickedness? Social havoc and oppression are all around me; there are legal conflicts, and disputes abound.
"You alone have I known from among all of the families of mankind; therefore I will hold you accountable for all your iniquities.'"
Then I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels, the living creatures, and the elders surrounding the throne. They numbered 10,000's times 10,000 and thousands times thousands.
Therefore, stop judging prematurely, before the Lord comes, for he will bring to light what is now hidden in darkness and reveal the motives of our hearts. Then each person will receive his praise from God.
"Son of Man, start singing this lamentation for the king of Tyre. Tell him, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "You served as my model, my example of complete wisdom and perfect beauty.
So go gather all of Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. Bring along 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah who are funded at Jezebel's expense."
Elijah was a person just like us, and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and rain never came to the land for three years and six months.
Gomer conceived again and gave birth to a daughter, so the LORD told Hosea, "Name her "Lo-ruhamah,' because I will no longer be showing mercy to the house of Israel, nor will I forgive them.
At that time I'll shatter the military strength of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel."
See, today I've appointed you to prophesy about nations and kingdoms, to pull up and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant."
You household servants must submit yourselves to your masters out of respect, not only to those who are kind and fair, but also to those who are unjust.
The rest were killed by the sword that belonged to the rider on the horse and that came from his mouth, and all the birds gorged themselves with their flesh.
Let those who pursue me be put to shame, but don't put me to shame. Let them be terrified, but don't let me be terrified. Bring the day of judgment on them, and destroy them with double destruction!
This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
But you must be clear-headed about everything. Endure suffering. Do the work of an evangelist. Devote yourself completely to your ministry.
Live in harmony with each other. Do not be arrogant, but associate with humble people. Do not think that you are wiser than you really are.
Who will accuse God's elect? It is God who justifies!
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up and causes you trouble, or many of you will become defiled.
The former proclaim the Messiah because they are selfishly ambitious and insincere, thinking that they will stir up trouble for me during my imprisonment.
For the sake of this gospel I was appointed to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the gentiles.
So he told them, "You try to justify yourselves in front of people, but God knows your hearts, because what is highly valued by people is detestable to God.
Consequently, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
Now I am happy, not because you had such sorrow, but because your sorrow led you to repent. For you were sorry in a godly way, and so you were not hurt by us in any way.
So Ananias left and went to that house. He laid his hands on Saul and said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were traveling, has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit."
On recognizing Peter's voice, she was so overjoyed that she didn't open the gate but ran back inside and announced that Peter was standing at the gate.
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
When Peter realized what had happened, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was also called Mark, where a large number of people had gathered and were praying.
he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled, as you've heard it read aloud."
Jesus replied to them, "My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.
With tears flowing, the child's father at once cried out, "I do believe! Help my unbelief!"
Do you think that I came to bring peace on earth? Not at all, I tell you, but rather division!
because some men are celibate from birth, while some are celibate because they have been made that way by others. Still others are celibate because they have made themselves that way for the sake of the kingdom from heaven. Let anyone accept this who can."
If I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own followers drive them out? That is why they will be your judges!
And don't call anyone on earth "Father,' because you have only one Father, the one in heaven.
Then Jesus rebuked the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed that very hour.
Seeing in the distance a fig tree covered with leaves, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing except leaves because it wasn't the season for figs.
Be strong and courageous. Don't fear or tremble before them, because the LORD your God will be the one who keeps on walking with you he won't leave you or abandon you."
While the king watched the back of the hand as it was writing, his facial expression changed. Utterly frightened, he lost control of his own bowels and his knees knocked together.
"Hear this message from the LORD, people of Israel. Indeed, the LORD brings a charge against the people who live in the land for there is no truth and no gracious love or knowledge of God in the land.
"If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents, and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them,
It was the Day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath. Since it was already evening,
The person who says, "I have come to know him," but does not continually keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth has no place in that person.
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good! His gracious love exists forever.
then the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials and to hold unrighteous people for punishment on the day of judgment,
We consider those who endured to be blessed. You have heard about Job's endurance and have seen the purpose of the Lord that the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
Listen, you heavens, and let the earth pay attention, because the LORD has spoken: "I reared children and brought them to adulthood, but then they rebelled against me.
Always set an example for others by doing good actions. Teach with integrity and dignity.
For as often as you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
So the Twelve called the whole group of disciples together and said, "It is not desirable for us to neglect messages from God in order to wait on tables.
I'll take vengeance on them, punishing them severely in my anger. They'll know that I am the LORD when I take my vengeance on them."'"
Indeed, if you are silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows but that you were brought to the kingdom for a time like this?"
Nathan's son Azariah supervised the governors, Nathan's son Zabud the priest was the king's counselor,
both Mahlon and Chilion died, leaving Naomi alone with neither her husband nor her two sons.
By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did, and by faith he was declared to be righteous, since God himself accepted his offerings. And by faith he continues to speak, even though he is dead.
When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed, then you, too, will be revealed with him in glory.
On the third New Moon after the Israelis went out of the land of Egypt, on that very day, they came to the desert of Sinai.
One might even say that Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham,