Isaiah 61:8

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Yahweh, “from now on and forever.”

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.

My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it and be glad.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’

Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

“Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of a male prostitute, into the house of Yahweh your God for any vow; for both of these are an abomination to Yahweh your God.

Isn’t my house so with God? Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,

My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,