Acts 5:25

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:

“So you, son of man: I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.

Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’ ”

“You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.

Yahweh said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

Now I will break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds apart.”

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Yahweh said to Moses, “I am Yahweh. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I tell you.”

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.

Then everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel were assembled to me, because of their trespass of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:

“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people who stood in Yahweh’s house,

Therefore you go, and read from the scroll which you have written from my mouth, Yahweh’s words, in the ears of the people in Yahweh’s house on the fast day. Also you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.

Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in Yahweh’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house, in the ears of all the people.

So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out of the room of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the princes who stood beside the king.

When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,

You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;

After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.

Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”

and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It’s the Lord!” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.

Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

Cornelius said, “Four days ago, I was fasting until this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side, and woke him up, saying, “Stand up quickly!” His chains fell off his hands.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.