1 Samuel 18:29

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

saying, “Ha! What do we have to do with you, Jesus, you Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up?” Saul answered, “I am very distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me, and answers me no more, by prophets, or by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.”

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me.

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

When he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and bowed down to him,

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

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.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

The unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, “You are the Son of God!”

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

The evil spirit answered, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?”

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

He said to his people, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.

The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”

Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have creditd David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don’t disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace. May Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me today.

The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”

Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, “What do I have to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torment me!”

All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.