1 John 2:8

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

The last enemy that will be abolished is death.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.