Acts 15:17
Greek Text— Acts 15:17that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’
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What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter.
She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them.
Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”
I see him, but not now. I see him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob. A scepter will rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of Moab, and crush all the sons of Sheth.
You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’
But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
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 king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
because Yahweh of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”
Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.
I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.
But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.
All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will be afraid of you.
Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.
His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.
From the rising of the sun to its going down, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.
For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.
But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is no one besides me. I am Yahweh, and there is no one else.
Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.
then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”
I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.” ’
“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.
It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
But, as it is written, “They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven’t heard will understand.”
God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is my helmet. Judah is my scepter.
Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.
Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”
Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?
Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”
Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.
She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”
I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.
We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,
For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”
It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”
“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.
Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.
It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
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.”
the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”
The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
“So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them.”
He took up his parable, and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
We have become like those over whom you never ruled, like those who were not called by your name.
All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”
Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.
The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of booths.
For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.