2 Corinthians 7:14

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,

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

and has extended loving kindness to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. I was strengthened according to Yahweh my God’s hand on me, and I gathered together chief men out of Israel to go up with me.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”

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.

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.”

For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God on him.

Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they didn’t make them cease, until the matter should come to Darius, and an answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.