Isaiah 8:20

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

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.’

and I will give him the morning star.

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

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

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

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

“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.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

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

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

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.”

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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.

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.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

Wrap up the covenant. Seal the law among my disciples.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”

Because you are sent by the king and his seven counselors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

Now therefore let’s make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and those who are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law.

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

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

Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

For John said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

He answered, “What did Moses command you?”

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.