Genesis 3:17

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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,

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

You shall burn the whole ram on the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh; it is a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh—a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a free will offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock—

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, “It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him.”

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Jesus said to him, “Friend, why are you here?” Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

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 John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!

Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

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

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.