Acts 24:25

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.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

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

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

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

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies says, “Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.

Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

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?”

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

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

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul.

Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.

But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,

The chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him. For they feared him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

He called for lights, sprang in, fell down trembling before Paul and Silas,

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Now concerning Apollos, the brother, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brothers; and it was not at all his desire to come now; but he will come when he has an opportunity.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;