Ecclesiastes 12:10

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.

“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

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

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

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

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

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.”

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

On the next day, Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.”

All the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God, that we not die; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for a king.”

She said to her husband, “See now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God who passes by us continually.

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

But if they are prophets, and if Yahweh’s word is with them, let them now make intercession to Yahweh of Armies, that the vessels which are left in Yahweh’s house, in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, don’t go to Babylon.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

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

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”

Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.