Acts 9:4

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

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

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.

He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Then I arose, and went out into the plain, and behold, Yahweh’s glory stood there, like the glory which I saw by the river Chebar. Then I fell on my face.

Yahweh’s glory mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Yahweh’s glory.

Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house; so I fell on my face.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Because there is one loaf of bread, we, who are many, are one body; for we all partake of the one loaf of bread.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

I saw a mighty angel coming down out of the sky, clothed with a cloud. A rainbow was on his head. His face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying, “This is what you shall tell the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

Yahweh says, “Concerning all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.

So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was frightened, and fell on my face; but he said to me, “Understand, son of man; for the vision belongs to the time of the end.”

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

that looked like a jasper stone and a sardius. There was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald to look at.

Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

Yahweh’s glory settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. The seventh day he called to Moses out of the middle of the cloud.

He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

“Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’ ”

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

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.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

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.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

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

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

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.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

As the appearance of the rainbow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. This was the appearance of the likeness of Yahweh’s glory. When I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spoke.

Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”

In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

because they didn’t meet you with bread and with water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

He said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.

Yahweh called Samuel. He said, “Here I am.”

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

Yahweh says: “Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.

“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the ground.

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

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!”

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

I heard the Lord’s voice, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am. Send me!”

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.