Exodus 1:21

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.

Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

When the king lived in his house, and Yahweh had given him rest from all his enemies all around,

It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

The king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn, and kill the priests of Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and didn’t disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king wouldn’t put out their hand to fall on the priests of Yahweh.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Who among you fears Yahweh and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

You will be blessed above all peoples. There won’t be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock.

He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led Israel out and in. Yahweh said to you, ‘You will be shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be prince over Israel.’ ”

and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

For David said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.

Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

Israel, trust in Yahweh! He is their help and their shield.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”

So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn’t obey Yahweh’s voice, to dwell in the land of Judah.

Being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.

The men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had instructed them in the letters which she had written and sent to them.

and from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

“Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into Yahweh’s house, into one of the rooms, and give them wine to drink.”