Genesis 45:8

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

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

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’ ”

The righteous care about justice for the poor. The wicked aren’t concerned about knowledge.

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

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

He made him ride in the second chariot which he had. They cried before him, “Bow the knee!” He set him over all the land of Egypt.

They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

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.”

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

They said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is today with our father, and one is no more.”

Yahweh make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.

Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

seeing your pure behavior in fear.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

We love him, because he first loved us.

The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

When Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves down to the earth before him.

They told him, saying, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” His heart fainted, for he didn’t believe them.

Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, I have guided her from my mother’s womb);

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

After saying goodbye to each other, we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

not of works, that no one would boast.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph’s brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions,

By the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.