Acts 9:5

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph’s race was revealed to Pharaoh.

As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”

Yahweh said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you have made before me. I have made this house holy, which you have built, to put my name there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

“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.’

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.”

“ ‘You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean. You shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.

But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’

“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

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

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

“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.’

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t Yahweh anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.’

Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples who stretch out their hand to alter this, to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree. Let it be done with all diligence.

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

When he had come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck, and that he were sunk in the depths of the sea.