Isaiah 63:8

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.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

For I am Yahweh who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

These are the things that you shall do: speak every man the truth with his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates,

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another,

to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

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.”

“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘I am Yahweh your God.

But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as it is today.

Jehoahaz begged Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.

Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

Trust in Yahweh forever; for in Yah, Yahweh, is an everlasting Rock.

“But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

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 also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their offspring after them, even you above all peoples, as it is today.

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.

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”

Truly help from the hills, the tumult on the mountains, is in vain. Truly the salvation of Israel is in Yahweh our God.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, the treacherous for the upright.

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness. I will hold your hand. I will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations,

Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

I will take you to myself for a people. I will be your God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

I myself am Yahweh. Besides me, there is no savior.

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.

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “We will do all that Yahweh has said, and be obedient.”

You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth.

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,

For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

“Listen to me, my people; and hear me, my nation, for a law will go out from me, and I will establish my justice for a light to the peoples.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

I said, “Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won’t be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her.” But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;