Acts 16:30

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”

Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace. He spoke and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the middle of the fire.

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

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.’ ”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

A leper came to him, begging him, kneeling down to him, and saying to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.”

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Then Saul said to his servant, “But, behold, if we go, what should we bring the man? For the bread is spent in our sacks, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”

Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.”

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Yahweh of Armies says: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All who took them captive hold them fast. They refuse to let them go.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

He said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land.”

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God!”

Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

The king said to Hazael, “Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’ ”

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.