2 Corinthians 10:5
Greek Text— 2 Corinthians 10:5throwing 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,
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Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
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.
having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
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.
therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”
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.
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
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.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
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.
May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand,
but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.
Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.
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.
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.
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
Let brotherly love continue.
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.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
“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.”
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
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.
They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
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.
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.
Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
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For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
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!
Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,
Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’ ”
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.
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;
You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.
I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.
The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,
The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
But there were some of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.