1 Samuel 20:2

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

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

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

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

The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”

David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

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?”

Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”

And not a hair of your head will perish.

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.”

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

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

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

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.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Afterward they asked for a king, and God gave to them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

When you have stayed three days, go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel.

Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

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.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

“Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides Yahweh our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!”

The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

How shall we provide wives for those who remain, since we have sworn by Yahweh that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”

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

So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

Jonathan said to David, “By Yahweh, the God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good toward David, won’t I then send to you, and disclose it to you?

that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.

Some Gadites joined David in the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, who could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the gazelles on the mountains:

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.

To the others he said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him, and strike. Don’t let your eye spare, neither have pity.

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

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”

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.

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn’t understand.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.