for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the sons of the east.

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

Then the proconsul believed when he saw what had happened, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.

So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

“For thus says the Lord, ‘When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place.

The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;
The Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength;
Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

for Demas, having loved this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.

He established the earth upon its foundations,
So that it will not totter forever and ever.

Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

The word of the Lord came again to me saying,

Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before Him with joyful singing.

All the people perceived the thunder and the lightning flashes and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood at a distance.

The man named Barabbas had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?”

So the Lord said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.

and Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Bethel,

Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just exactly as the women also had said; but Him they did not see.”

“Blessed is the man who listens to me,
Watching daily at my gates,
Waiting at my doorposts.

A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
I will sing of the lovingkindness of the Lord forever;
To all generations I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth.

that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself has also been a helper of many, and of myself as well.

Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?”

And He *said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,

For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.”

Many will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.

My son, observe the commandment of your father
And do not forsake the teaching of your mother;

“I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’
To a nation which did not call on My name.

If from human motives I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,

So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

He came to His hometown and began teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?

The cities of the Negev have been locked up,
And there is no one to open them;
All Judah has been carried into exile,
Wholly carried into exile.

He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

Then it happened when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and on Ziklag, and had overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire;

Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them:“Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully.

So the man entered the house. Then Laban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

Then Samuel said to Saul, “The Lord sent me to anoint you as king over His people, over Israel; now therefore, listen to the words of the Lord.

Her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

There is one who scatters, and yet increases all the more,
And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming,

Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles,
But the one who gathers by labor increases it.

When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.

What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

And large crowds came to Him, bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, mute, and many others, and they laid them down at His feet; and He healed them.

‘Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you,
Let them be your hiding place!

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

Then it was told Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourns for Absalom.”

He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

Yet when they had devoured them, it could not be detected that they had devoured them, for they were just as ugly as before. Then I awoke.

At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.

You shall be driven mad by the sight of what you see.

For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”

Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to that particular one who was speaking, “How long will the vision about the regular sacrifice apply, while the transgression causes horror, so as to allow both the holy place and the host to be trampled?”

Thus says the Lord,
“Preserve justice and do righteousness,
For My salvation is about to come
And My righteousness to be revealed.

Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

Abraham came near and said, “Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.

Abram said, “O Lord God, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

“You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

The naive believes everything,
But the sensible man considers his steps.

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

“The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the Lord’s offerings by fire and His portion.

So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead you rebelled against the command of the Lord, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country.

I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.
Cease to do evil,

the Jews established and made a custom for themselves and for their descendants and for all those who allied themselves with them, so that they would not fail to celebrate these two days according to their regulation and according to their appointed time annually.

You shall make on its hem pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material, all around on its hem, and bells of gold between them all around:

“When the body has a boil on its skin and it is healed,

For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.”

Get yourself up on a high mountain,
O Zion, bearer of good news,
Lift up your voice mightily,
O Jerusalem, bearer of good news;
Lift it up, do not fear.
Say to the cities of Judah,
“Here is your God!”

who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

“Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.

The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

So Jesus said to them, “For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”

And so Simon Peter also *came, following him, and entered the tomb; and he *saw the linen wrappings lying there,

I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the warriors, and neither is bread to the wise nor wealth to the discerning nor favor to men of ability; for time and chance overtake them all.

And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.

“Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them to minister as priests to Me: take one young bull and two rams without blemish,

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
O clap your hands, all peoples;
Shout to God with the voice of joy.

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did to him!”

For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash forth their light;
The sun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.

Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”

The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish son is a grief to his mother.

Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,
Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the Lord,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away from Him.

Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You support my lot.

I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died;

Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

So Aaron came near to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin offering which was for himself.

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

On the following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

Even all the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and those who were doing the king’s business assisted the Jews, because the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them.

And in that day living waters will flow out of Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and the other half toward the western sea; it will be in summer as well as in winter.

So Jesus *said to them, “Children, you do not have any fish, do you?” They answered Him, “No.”

And he was preaching, and saying, “After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals.

And as these were leaving Him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three tabernacles: one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah”—not realizing what he was saying.

Then some Midianite traders passed by, so they pulled him up and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. Thus they brought Joseph into Egypt.

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,
But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

The wise woman builds her house,
But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.

Wisdom shouts in the street,
She lifts her voice in the square;

For the choir director; according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
My soul waits in silence for God only;
From Him is my salvation.

Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.’

But earnestly desire the greater gifts.And I show you a still more excellent way.

For the heart of this people has become dull,
With their ears they scarcely hear,
And they have closed their eyes,
Otherwise they would see with their eyes,
Hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart and return,
And I would heal them.’

And He called a child to Himself and set him before them,

And Jesus, looking around, *said to His disciples, “How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!”

With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father’s household.

These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He had made with them at Horeb.

Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

Have You completely rejected Judah?
Or have You loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing?
We waited for peace, but nothing good came;
And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

By lovingkindness and truth iniquity is atoned for,
And by the fear of the Lord one keeps away from evil.

Now it was after this that Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar, and Amnon the son of David loved her.

And Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you have come for.” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and seized Him.

For if you say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’ surely thus says the Lord, ‘Because you said this word, “The oracle of the Lord!” I have also sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The oracle of the Lord!’”’

“Surely there is a mine for silver
And a place where they refine gold.

“Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments,

For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

Now a worthless fellow happened to be there whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet and said,
“We have no portion in David,
Nor do we have inheritance in the son of Jesse;
Every man to his tents, O Israel!”

Thus they shall eat those things by which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration; but a layman shall not eat them, because they are holy.

If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’

He *said to them, “Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it became perfectly calm.

But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not so in knowledge; in fact, in every way we have made this evident to you in all things.

Thus says the Lord who made you
And formed you from the womb, who will help you,
‘Do not fear, O Jacob My servant;
And you Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,To Philemon our beloved brother and fellow worker,

See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.

And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants.

Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

The oracle concerning Egypt.
Behold, the Lord is riding on a swift cloud and is about to come to Egypt;
The idols of Egypt will tremble at His presence,
And the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.

“Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a spring;
Its branches run over a wall.

So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?”

So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him,
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”;

and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may perform these signs of Mine among them,

But the son of Paul’s sister heard of their ambush, and he came and entered the barracks and told Paul.

And He said to them, “Cast the net on the right-hand side of the boat and you will find a catch.” So they cast, and then they were not able to haul it in because of the great number of fish.

‘For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white which was in the rods.

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

“When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near;

So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor His disciples, they themselves got into the small boats, and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus.

Poor is he who works with a negligent hand,
But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

And in the fourth watch of the night He came to them, walking on the sea.

The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.

since they relate only to food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until a time of reformation.

We know our wickedness, O Lord,
The iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And immediately they were completely astounded.

Now David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place.

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
Than he who is perverse in speech and is a fool.

Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Now the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

The disciples *said to Him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone You, and are You going there again?”

And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

So the sons of Israel shall observe the sabbath, to celebrate the sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.’

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

But when they cried out to the Lord, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

“Woe to you, O Moab!
You are ruined, O people of Chemosh!
He has given his sons as fugitives,
And his daughters into captivity,
To an Amorite king, Sihon.

He *said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me?” He *said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He *said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.”

But all things must be done properly and in an orderly manner.

Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink, saying, “Let us see whether Elijah will come to take Him down.”

The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.

The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth,

if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace which was given to me for you;

Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.”

And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.”

Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came in and sat down at the Middle Gate: Nergal-sar-ezer, Samgar-nebu, Sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.

“Is not My word like fire?” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?

For this finds favor, if for the sake of conscience toward God a person bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.

And when the blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I also was standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying him.’

in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,

He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.

If the righteous will be rewarded in the earth,
How much more the wicked and the sinner!

A generation goes and a generation comes,
But the earth remains forever.

So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son; come up and deliver me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.”

“When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you.

Tremble before Him, all the earth;
Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

But one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear.

As they were passing by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.

He said,
“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;

So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and were saying, “Where is He?”

Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, the priests, the prophets and all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

“While so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,

then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

Your lovingkindness, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised.

and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

For man is born for trouble,
As sparks fly upward.

And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

‘For I will pour out water on the thirsty land
And streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring
And My blessing on your descendants;

So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of meeting, and the whole congregation came near and stood before the Lord.

‘A clamor has come to the end of the earth,
Because the Lord has a controversy with the nations.
He is entering into judgment with all flesh;
As for the wicked, He has given them to the sword,’ declares the Lord.”

Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my need;

But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains, he was called Adino the Eznite, because of eight hundred slain by him at one time;

In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah and fortified Ramah in order to prevent anyone from going out or coming in to Asa king of Judah.

Jesus *said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!”

Thus they told him, and said, “We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or soothsaying.

But the Jerusalem above is free; she is our mother.

he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.

Also you shall observe the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors from what you sow in the field; also the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labors from the field.

and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;

Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all.”

If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.

But we will not boast beyond our measure, but within the measure of the sphere which God apportioned to us as a measure, to reach even as far as you.

When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and after greeting the brethren, we stayed with them for a day.

and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

But they said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Then Joshua said to them, “Who are you and where do you come from?”

One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, “Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the things which have happened here in these days?”

treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,
“How the oppressor has ceased,
And how fury has ceased!

“I love those who love me;
And those who diligently seek me will find me.

For their office is to assist the sons of Aaron with the service of the house of the Lord, in the courts and in the chambers and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God,

Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

“Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me.

The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

“You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness above Your companions.”

Jesus answered, “Are you saying this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about Me?”

And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions.

then it shall be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, it shall be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.

He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits.

For thus says the Lord God, “How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had an exceedingly large number of livestock. So when they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was indeed a place suitable for livestock,

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second.

But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.

because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”

“This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers
And the decision is a command of the holy ones,
In order that the living may know
That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind,
And bestows it on whom He wishes
And sets over it the lowliest of men.”

Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing;

for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

“Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins;
You will raise up the age-old foundations;
And you will be called the repairer of the breach,
The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.

They *brought to Him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they *implored Him to lay His hand on him.

A wife is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

Jesse was the father of David the king.David was the father of Solomon by Bathsheba who had been the wife of Uriah.

When the righteous increase, the people rejoice,
But when a wicked man rules, people groan.

“If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has struck him,

What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

A Psalm of Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, the Lord, has spoken,
And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Therefore did that which is good become a cause of death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful.

“Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name?
For You alone are holy;
For all the nations will come and worship before You,
For Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

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

Then He *came to the disciples and *said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the Lord delivers him out of them all.

But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.

thus says the Lord God, ‘Remove the turban and take off the crown; this will no longer be the same. Exalt that which is low and abase that which is high.

A truthful witness saves lives,
But he who utters lies is treacherous.

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

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

Moreover, David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service some of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps and cymbals; and the number of those who performed their service was:

And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place.

The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the unclean things of her immorality,

When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.

Then the sons of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning you and me in Kadesh-barnea.

A Psalm of Solomon.
Give the king Your judgments, O God,
And Your righteousness to the king’s son.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

“Behold you have admonished many,
And you have strengthened weak hands.

and he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart now from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing that belongs to them, or you will be swept away in all their sin.”

“When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace.

the secrets of his heart are disclosed; and so he will fall on his face and worship God, declaring that God is certainly among you.

‘If a man takes the life of any human being, he shall surely be put to death.

Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him immediately.

Like a dog that returns to its vomit
Is a fool who repeats his folly.

and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one who incites the people to rebellion, and behold, having examined Him before you, I have found no guilt in this man regarding the charges which you make against Him.

But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her.

“Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
That hovers over its young,
He spread His wings and caught them,
He carried them on His pinions.

“If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire.

“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed Me by acting treacherously against Me.

And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.

‘Behold, days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will fulfill the good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?

Then I heard a loud voice from the temple, saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”

And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge *said;

But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.

Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God,

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.

There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.

To know wisdom and instruction,
To discern the sayings of understanding,

And the disciples came to the other side of the sea, but they had forgotten to bring any bread.

Then King David said to the entire assembly, “My son Solomon, whom alone God has chosen, is still young and inexperienced and the work is great; for the temple is not for man, but for the Lord God.

Straightening up, Jesus said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”

Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;
My ears You have opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

It came about after these events that his master’s wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.”

And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever lain.

Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat.

Wherever He entered villages, or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and imploring Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many as touched it were being cured.

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear,

who does not need daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people, because this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.

What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?

And his appearance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow.

“When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

praying at the same time for us as well, that God will open up to us a door for the word, so that we may speak forth the mystery of Christ, for which I have also been imprisoned;

The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time.

Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which mystically is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
And rely on horses,
And trust in chariots because they are many
And in horsemen because they are very strong,
But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the Lord!

But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseled rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.

“Speak to the sons of Israel, ‘When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind, acting unfaithfully against the Lord, and that person is guilty,

Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, there went up Ezra son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,

When they measured it with an omer, he who had gathered much had no excess, and he who had gathered little had no lack; every man gathered as much as he should eat.

Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it.

I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.

Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. And because of the instructions in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had happened to them,

but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

A day of darkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a great and mighty people;
There has never been anything like it,
Nor will there be again after it
To the years of many generations.

So the Lord gave Israel all the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed it and lived in it.

While they were talking and discussing, Jesus Himself approached and began traveling with them.

And Jesus said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.

“You shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen; it shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman.

And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire.

All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your God:

Your sons shall be shepherds for forty years in the wilderness, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your corpses lie in the wilderness.

for they all out of their surplus put into the offering; but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on.”

Keep deception and lies far from me,
Give me neither poverty nor riches;
Feed me with the food that is my portion,

Then He left the crowds and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”

While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth.

and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Then Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim.

Teach me Your way, O Lord;
I will walk in Your truth;
Unite my heart to fear Your name.

But the humble will inherit the land
And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

“For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,
But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you,
And My covenant of peace will not be shaken,”
Says the Lord who has compassion on you.

Taking the child by the hand, He *said to her, “Talitha kum!” (which translated means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”).

Discipline your son while there is hope,
And do not desire his death.

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

‘These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of God.

They shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat demons with which they play the harlot. This shall be a permanent statute to them throughout their generations.”’

And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.