Isaiah 26:18

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.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today; for you will never again see the Egyptians whom you have seen today.

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”

David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”

Solomon said, “If he shows himself a worthy man, not a hair of his shall fall to the earth; but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

And not a hair of your head will perish.

Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh. “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.

Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

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

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

Just as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before you, Yahweh.

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.

Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’

Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

Be in pain, and labor to give birth, daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now you will go out of the city, and will dwell in the field, and will come even to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to whomever I want.

But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in 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.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”

The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.

This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.

No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.

The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.