Deuteronomy 18:21

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.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.

It will happen when you say, ‘Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us?’ Then you shall say to them, ‘Just as you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated. I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

They will also strip you of your clothes, and take away your beautiful jewels.

Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

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

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,

But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.

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

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame will appear.

It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’

Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

On the seventh day, the priest shall examine the itch; and behold, if the itch hasn’t spread in the skin, and its appearance isn’t deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. He shall wash his clothes and be clean.

then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city.

If you shall say in your heart, “These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?”

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.

This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.

You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.

Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”

“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I won’t sit as a widow, neither will I know the loss of children.’

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’ ”

“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.

“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’

If you say in your heart, “Why have these things come on me?” Your skirts are uncovered because of the greatness of your iniquity, and your heels suffer violence.

Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.

Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.”

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”