1 Samuel 2:3

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

He has made my mouth like a sharp sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. He has made me a polished shaft. He has kept me close in his quiver.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

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.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

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

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

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.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand,

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.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

The rest were killed with the sword of him who sat on the horse, the sword which came out of his mouth. All the birds were filled with their flesh.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”

Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the way that they treated people arrogantly.”

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.

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

The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

“I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.