Isaiah 3:10

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.

By the river on its bank, on this side and on that side, will grow every tree for food, whose leaf won’t wither, neither will its fruit fail. It will produce new fruit every month, because its waters issue out of the sanctuary. Its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for healing.”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

His master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he did prosper in his hand.

There was no king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; and there was none like him who arose after him.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

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 if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don’t have God’s seal on their foreheads.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

“Should you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

yet through the scent of water it will bud, and sprout boughs like a plant.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

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

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to my commandments which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.” ’

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Always rejoice.

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?”

You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for all time.

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.

It shall be, if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel to you.

My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law.

Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

The king by justice makes the land stable, but he who takes bribes tears it down.

Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

It will be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

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.’

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

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

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land;

Yahweh said to him, “Go through the middle of the city, through the middle of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done within it.”

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

You shall do that which is right and good in Yahweh’s sight, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are today.

If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.

Therefore Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, tell him, “Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Concerning the words which you have heard,

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Yahweh said, “Most certainly I will strengthen you for good. Most certainly I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

Whether it is good, or whether it is bad, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.”

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

Those who are far off shall come and build in Yahweh’s temple; and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you. This will happen, if you will diligently obey Yahweh your God’s voice.” ’ ”

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.

“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today;