Hebrews 12:8

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

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

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

A person born of a forbidden union shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly; even to the tenth generation shall no one of his enter into Yahweh’s assembly.

Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king.

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your works.” The ships were wrecked, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear and answer them. They never change, who don’t fear God.

Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

“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.

“ ‘ “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.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Therefore you will have no one who divides the land by lot in Yahweh’s assembly.

“But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

David says, “Let their table be made a snare, a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

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.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,