2 Peter 2:12

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

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.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed. Let them be dismayed, but don’t let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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;

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.”

The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.

But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered.

I will pour out my indignation on you. I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath. I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.