Genesis 18:21
Hebrew Text— Genesis 18:21I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”
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Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;
I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
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.
They told him, and said, “We came to the land where you sent us. Surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us, and brought us word again, and said, “It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.”
that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.
“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.
God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
It shall be, when Yahweh brings you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.
Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.
and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.
then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.
For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
It will happen in that day that a great trumpet will be blown; and those who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and those who were outcasts in the land of Egypt, shall come; and they will worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),
God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.
“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
I have surely seen the affliction of my people that is in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’
Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.