Isaiah 50:5

If you love me, keep my commandments.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

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

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.

and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

There have also been mighty kings over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.

I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Her gates shall lament and mourn. She shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;

But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”

He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

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.

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Then you shall kill the ram, and take some of its blood, and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

He said to him, “Far from it; you will not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me. Why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so.”

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!