2 Peter 1:14

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall possess it.

They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.

Now I have told you before it happens so that when it happens, you may believe.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph’s hand will close your eyes.”

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

The Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary. The others set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

They departed and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

But you watch. “Behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”

Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him. All the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.

Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.

“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

“Behold, I have told you beforehand.

Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

Jesus said to him, “If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.”

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,

When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

“Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them. I will be with you.”

“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

Yahweh is my portion. I promised to obey your words.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the former of all things; including the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.

For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There they also made their pleasant aroma, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, “My lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows have overtaken me, and I retain no strength.

But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

The tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, went forward.

Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

“As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved within my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.