Ecclesiastes 8:10

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

“Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.

Now that no man is justified by the law before God is evident, for, “The righteous will live by faith.”

His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.

The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

The dead shall not live. The departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore you have visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

“ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

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.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

“Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

I will set my face against them. They will go out from the fire, but the fire will devour them. Then you will know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

His memory will perish from the earth. He will have no name in the street.

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”

I will utter my judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

Because they have forsaken me, and have defiled this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods that they didn’t know, they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I am dead, bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

The womb will forget him. The worm will feed sweetly on him. He will be no more remembered. Unrighteousness will be broken as a tree.

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”