Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you,

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that God’s message had been proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there too, agitating and disturbing the crowds.

Finally, brothers, pray on for me, that God's word may run swiftly, and be glorified as in your own case,

Paul, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, through God's will, - and Sosthenes the brother, -

For, the discourse which concerneth the cross, unto them, indeed, who are perishing, is, foolishness; but, unto them who are being saved - unto us, it is, God's power.

and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your acts of charity have been remembered in God’s sight.

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

The apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles had welcomed God’s message also.

Then shall the vision seers be ashamed, and the soothsayers confounded: yea they shall be fain, all the pack of them, to stop their mouths: for they have not God's word.

Then God’s message flourished and multiplied.

Arriving in Salamis, they proclaimed God’s message in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their assistant.

He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear God’s message.

For David, after serving his own generation in God’s plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.

Depart from me, you evil ones,
so that I may obey my God’s commands.

But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'

For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,

Or know ye not that, wrong-doers, shall not inherit, God's kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves: - neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners - shall inherit, God's kingdom.

So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.

Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.

For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Wherefore, I give you to know - that, no one, in God's Spirit speaking, saith - Accursed Jesus! and, no one, can say - Lord Jesus! save in the Holy Spirit.

Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me?

And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?

And, this, I say, brethren, - that, flesh and blood, cannot inherit, God's kingdom. Neither doth, corruption, inherit, incorruption.

So a sabbath of rest is still awaiting God's people.

So let us continue coming with courage to the throne of God's unmerited favor to obtain His mercy and to find His spiritual strength to help us when we need it.

Then Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the bowls.

So Huram finished doing the work that he was doing for King Solomon in God’s temple:

Solomon also made all the equipment in God’s temple: the gold altar; the tables on which to put the bread of the Presence;

And you shall consecrate him, because he is bringing near your God's food; he shall be holy to you, since I, Yahweh, who consecrates you, [am] holy.

"Speak to Aaron, saying, 'A man from your offspring throughout their generations, in whom is a physical defect, shall not come near to present your God's food.

He may eat his God's food, from {the most holy things} and from the holy things.

And by so much as He was not appointed without God's taking an oath --

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a High Priest as this, one who has taken His seat at the right hand of God's majestic throne in heaven

And you shall not present your God's food from any of these by the hand of {a foreigner}, because their deformity [is] in them; a physical defect [is] in them; they shall not be accepted for you.'"

and above the chest were the winged creatures, the symbols of God's glorious presence, overshadowing the mercy seat, of which I cannot now speak in detail.

King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. In this manner the king and all the people dedicated God’s temple.

And you shall not eat bread or roasted grain or ripe grain until {this very same day}, until you present your God's offering. [This must be] {a lasting statute} for your generations in all your dwellings.

But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,

but only a terrifying prospect of judgment and that fiery indignation which is going to devour God's enemies.

For by it the men of old won God's approval.

By faith we understand that the worlds were created, beautifully coordinated, and now exist, at God's command; so the things that we see did not develop out of mere matter.

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says. If you hear God's voice today,

But, in everything, commending ourselves as God's ministers, - in much endurance, in tribulations, in necessities, in straits,

And, not merely as we hoped, but, themselves, gave they, first, unto the Lord and unto us through God's will,

always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.

We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth.

Do you really think—anyone of you who judges those who do such things yet do the same—that you will escape God’s judgment?

But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

Or, a sin, did I commit - abasing, myself, that, ye, might be exalted, - in that, free of charge, God's glad-message, I announced unto you?

What then? If some did not believe, will their unbelief cancel God’s faithfulness?

But if by my lie God’s truth is amplified to His glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

But I count my life of no value to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of God’s grace.

envyings, drunkenness, revellings; - and such things as these: as to which I forewarn you, even as I have forewarned you, - that, they who such things as these do practise, shall not inherit, God's kingdom.

In that day shall the LORD defend the citizens of Jerusalem: so that the weakest then among them shall be as David: and the house of David shall be like as God's house, and as the Angel of the LORD before them.

But those in the ship came and did homage to him, saying, Truly thou art God's Son.

And to Apphia, our sister, and to Archippus, our brother in God's army, and to the church in your house:

Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment;

Let us then, though we still have God's word that we may come into his rest, go in fear that some of you may be unable to do so.

So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,

Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

And so, when he had been waiting calmly for a long time, God's word to him was put into effect.

So that when it was God's desire to make it specially clear to those who by his word were to have the heritage, that his purpose was fixed, he made it more certain with an oath;

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;

For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.

By faith Rahab, the loose woman, was not put to death with those who had gone against God's orders, because she had taken into her house in peace those sent to see the land.

Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.

And Jesus, answering, said to them, Have God's faith.

Though all these people by their faith won God's approval, yet none of them received what He had promised,

Continue to look after one another, that no one fails to gain God's spiritual blessing; or some evil like a bitter root may spring up and trouble you, and many of you be contaminated by it --

You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.

God's spiritual blessings be with you all. Amen.

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in God's likeness.

the declaration of the hearer of God's words, who sees the revelation of Shaddai, falling down but [whose] eyes are uncovered.

the declaration of the hearer of God's words, and the knower of the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of Shaddai, who is falling, and [his] eyes [are] revealed.

But what was God’s reply to him? I have left 7,000 men for Myself who have not bowed down to Baal.

since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.

and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble over it because they are disobeying God's word, and to this they were also appointed.

So then, the one who resists the authority is opposing God’s command, and those who oppose it will bring judgment on themselves.

For it is better that you suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing wrong;

by the power of miraculous signs and wonders, and by the power of God’s Spirit. As a result, I have fully proclaimed the good news about the Messiah from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum.

So humble yourselves under God's mighty hand, so that he may exalt you in due time.

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

But now, apart from the law, God’s righteousness has been revealed—attested by the Law and the Prophets

—that is, God’s righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ, to all who believe, since there is no distinction.

But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's seat:

Now the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus, [when they] saw the earthquake and the things that took place, were extremely frightened, saying, "Truly this man was God's Son!"

For in my inner self I joyfully agree with God’s law.

The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,

For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

God’s verdict is on the lips of a king;
his mouth should not give an unfair judgment.