Isaiah 28:10

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

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

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years, Yahweh’s word has come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; but you have not listened.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Again he said, “To what shall I compare God’s Kingdom?

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a pure and faithful seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”

“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

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

“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a wedding feast for his son,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;

He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

He said, “God’s Kingdom is as if a man should cast seed on the earth,

He said, “What is God’s Kingdom like? To what shall I compare it?

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you, which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Now therefore listen to their voice. However you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the way of the king who will reign over them.”

Let it be, when these signs have come to you, that you do what is appropriate for the occasion; for God is with you.

Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

“The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment; but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking, and you have not listened to me.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

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

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Always rejoice.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

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

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

“It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

You shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

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

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.

Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer;

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;

For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, “Obey my voice.”

to listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them, but you have not listened;

“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Every one of you must return now from his evil way, amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, then you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.

“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

Yahweh’s angel protested to Joshua, saying,

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

They said therefore, “What is this that he says, ‘A little while’? We don’t know what he is saying.”

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

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,