Acts 28:25

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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.

while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

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.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

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

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

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.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

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

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

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.”

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

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

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.

who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not listen. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.” ’

(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

he again defines a certain day, today, saying through David so long a time afterward (just as has been said), “Today if you will hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.