Acts 23:12

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’ ”

In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to Yahweh’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

The sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. The men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had done folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter, a thing ought not to be done.

Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.

It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”

Saul said, “Tell David, ‘The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies.’ ” Now Saul thought he would make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your people, when Yahweh allows your thigh to fall away, and your body to swell;

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I don’t do even so to him;

Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’ ”

Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal it.”

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

My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people.

I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.

They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”

“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

We love him, because he first loved us.

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

“ ‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these.

The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book; and all the people agreed to the covenant.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people,

It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed. They couldn’t blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Yahweh.

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.

Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

“ ‘No one devoted to destruction, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed. He shall surely be put to death.

You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.

Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.”

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.

It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed Yahweh’s covenant, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ”

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”

The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

Ben Hadad sent to him, and said, “The gods do so to me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria will be enough for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”

Then he said, “God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat stays on him today.”

Our adversaries said, “They will not know or see, until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.”

joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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.

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

The words of the wicked are about lying in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.