Deuteronomy 26:13

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

“ ‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you must not wholly reap into the corners of your field, and you must not gather the gleanings of your harvest. You must leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

You shall not forsake the Levite who is within your gates, for he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because it is for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you put your hand to.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

“ ‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the children of Israel.

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

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

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ”

Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh’s wave offering, to Eleazar the priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

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.

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.”

Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.

You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.

All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

He who despises his neighbor sins, but he who has pity on the poor is blessed.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

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.

Yahweh spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I myself have given you the command of my wave offerings, even all the holy things of the children of Israel. I have given them to you by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion forever.

The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, as well as the foreigner living among you, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates and be filled.

I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.