Hebrews 4:2

He said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.”

“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.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

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

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.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

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.

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

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

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

Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.

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.”

He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

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

To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.