1 Corinthians 15:14

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

But I said, “I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength in vain for nothing; yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God.”

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,