Hebrews 4:6

“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.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

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.

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

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

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

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

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

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.

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.”

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.”

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

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

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

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.

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.

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

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

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.

For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

“My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who utter lying divinations. They will not be in the council of my people, neither will they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither will they enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”

It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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.

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?

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

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

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

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.

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

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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.

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

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,

Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name, which Yahweh’s mouth will name.

and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”

A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’

in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries in which you are scattered with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Yahweh will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land where you go in to possess it.

Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.

What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

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

You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,

I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

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

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

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.”

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

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.