2 Chronicles 34:27

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

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,

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.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.

He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”

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,

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Don’t you fear me?’ says Yahweh ‘Won’t you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can’t pass it? Though its waves toss themselves, yet they can’t prevail. Though they roar, they still can’t pass over it.’

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

because he didn’t remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

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

“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away from the commandment to the right hand, or to the left, to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the middle of Israel.

When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them; but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

When the king had heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’

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.”

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,