James 1:11

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

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

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Now in all Israel there was no one to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty. From the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no defect in him.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are made white.

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.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

“ ‘ “But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It was his.

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig.

All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus’ breast.

Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.

The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!

The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

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.

“ ‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’ ”

“ ‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

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

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;

The first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. One third of the earth was burned up, and one third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.