Hosea 14:9

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

“ ‘Yet the children of your people say, “The way of the Lord is not fair;” but as for them, their way is not fair.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of booths. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

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?

Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’ ”

Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”

Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

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

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

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.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.

Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

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

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

As for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves. They each went straight forward.

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

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.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

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

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.