1 Corinthians 2:16

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

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

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

For so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’ ”

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

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Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

The eternal God is your dwelling place. Underneath are the everlasting arms. He thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, ‘Destroy!’

Those who strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces. He will thunder against them in the sky. “Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

“Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

The land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt. Everyone to whom mention is made of it will be afraid, because of the plans of Yahweh of Armies, which he determines against it.

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? Who has listened to my word, and heard it?

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”