Exodus 31:13

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’ ”

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

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

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

“Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God, for they offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God. Therefore they shall be holy.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

“ ‘ “For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself.

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.” ’

Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.

I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” says the Lord Yahweh, “when I am proven holy in you before their eyes.

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

Therefore you shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.

“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

“ ‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.

that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’

and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,

The nations will know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever more.” ’ ”

“ ‘ “In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: