Genesis 25:32

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment and the judges judge them, then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

“If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid on him to cause him to swear, and he comes and swears before your altar in this house;

Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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.”

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

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

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

Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?

Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”

If the thief isn’t found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out whether or not he has put his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.

or any thing about which he has sworn falsely: he shall restore it in full, and shall add a fifth part more to it. He shall return it to him to whom it belongs in the day of his being found guilty.

Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

“Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey.” So he stopped, and didn’t kill them among their brothers.

“ ‘ “For her blood is in the middle of her. She set it on the bare rock. She didn’t pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

“Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Behold, they cried out, saying, “What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”

Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.