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looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;
lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you -- doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,
and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire -- in nothing lacking;
Poor is he who is working -- a slothful hand, And the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud -- 'These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,
And Jehovah is with me, as a terrible mighty one, Therefore my persecutors stumble and prevail not, They have been exceedingly ashamed, For they have not acted wisely, Confusion age-during is not forgotten.
As a crane -- a swallow -- so I chatter, I mourn as a dove, Drawn up have been mine eyes on high, O Jehovah, oppression is on me, be my surety.
even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)
since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief --
To the Overseer, on the octave. -- A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men:
The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.
for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,
'I, also, far be it from me to sin against Jehovah, by ceasing to pray for you, and I have directed you in the good and upright way;
And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: 'Lo, I am laying a foundation in Zion, A stone -- a tried stone, a corner stone precious, a settled foundation, He who is believing doth not make haste.
Better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in man,
Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Jesus saith to him, 'So long time am I with you, and thou hast not known me, Philip? he who hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how dost thou say, Shew to us the Father?
And it is grievous unto Jonah -- a great evil -- and he is displeased at it;
For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.
and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;
Our fathers in Egypt, Have not considered wisely Thy wonders, They have not remembered The abundance of Thy kind acts, And provoke by the sea, at the sea of Suph.
Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.
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Prayer » Causes of failure in » True prayer heard
And know ye that Jehovah Hath separated a saintly one to Himself. Jehovah heareth in my calling to Him.
To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I cry. He heareth from His temple my voice, And My cry before Him cometh into His ears.
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Sometimes refused because not in accord with the divine will
and David seeketh God for the youth, and David keepeth a fast, and hath gone in and lodged, and lain on the earth.
Son of man, speak with the elders of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: To seek Me are ye coming in? I live -- I am not sought by you -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.
'And Jehovah sheweth himself wroth with me, for your sake, and hath not hearkened unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, Enough for thee; add not to speak unto Me any more about this thing:
Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Social and family
these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask -- it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens,
and all the multitude of the people were praying without, at the hour of the perfume.
and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, 'Lord, thou art God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that are in them,
also, having considered, he came unto the house of Mary, the mother of John, who is surnamed Mark, where there were many thronged together and praying.
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Disobedience
and Saul asketh at Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not answered him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.
'And ye turn back and weep before Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not hearkened to your voice, nor hath he given ear unto you;
And Saul asketh of God, 'Do I go down after the Philistines? dost Thou give them into the hand of Israel?' and He hath not answered him on that day.
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Iniquity
But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.
Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Neglect of mercy
Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Stubbornness
And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Despising the law
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Indifference
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Blood-guiltiness
And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Instability
and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed, for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Secret sin
Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.
Prayer » Causes of failure in » Self-indulgence
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Priests, corrupt
When, therefore, the chief priests and the officers did see him, they cried out, saying, 'Crucify, crucify;' Pilate saith to them, 'Take ye him -- ye, and crucify; for I find no fault in him;'
Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, 'Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'
Her prophets unstable -- men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.
and the chief priests did move the multitude, that he might rather release Barabbas to them.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Punishment of
and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,
And it hath come to pass, at that time, I search Jerusalem with lights, And I have laid a charge on the men Who are hardened on their preserved things, Who are saying in their heart: Jehovah doth no good, nor doth He evil.
'And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes,
of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?
And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Rapacity of
Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,
and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;
for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,
And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;
and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Prosperity of
At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.
They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.
I have seen the wicked terrible, And spreading as a green native plant,
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Rejection of, by God
for ye know that also afterwards, wishing to inherit the blessing, he was disapproved of, for a place of reformation he found not, though with tears having sought it.
for a sin of divination is rebellion, and iniquity and teraphim is stubbornness; because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He also doth reject thee from being king.'
And Jehovah kicketh against all the seed of Israel, and afflicteth them, and giveth them into the hand of spoilers, till that He hath cast them out of His presence,
and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Disobedience
and Saul asketh at Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not answered him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.
'And ye turn back and weep before Jehovah, and Jehovah hath not hearkened to your voice, nor hath he given ear unto you;
And Saul asketh of God, 'Do I go down after the Philistines? dost Thou give them into the hand of Israel?' and He hath not answered him on that day.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Iniquity
But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.
Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Neglect of mercy
Whoso is shutting his ear from the cry of the poor, He also doth cry, and is not answered.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Stubbornness
And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Despising the law
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Indifference
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Blood-guiltiness
And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Instability
and let him ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he who is doubting hath been like a wave of the sea, driven by wind and tossed, for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord --
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Secret sin
Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.
The wicked » Causes of failure in » Self-indulgence
ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend it.