1 Samuel 12:14

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

“Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He will save my people out of the hand of the Philistines; for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.”

But if you will not listen to Yahweh’s voice, but rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then Yahweh’s hand will be against you, as it was against your fathers.

But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

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.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

But God turned, and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

“The whole congregation of Yahweh says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?

Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

They played the prostitute in Egypt. They played the prostitute in their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their youthful nipples were caressed there.

“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.

Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.