James 2:23

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

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

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.

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?

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

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

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

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

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

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”

Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

For God has bound all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

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

but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

Since then, there has not arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,

found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

Your mouth is like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

who by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh.” They did so.

Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us, and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with God’s rod in my hand.”

Moses rose up with Joshua, his servant, and Moses went up onto God’s Mountain.

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them; for I am Yahweh their God.

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.

You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.

Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

For David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet.” ’

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

Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.

Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, the king’s friend;

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, “Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep.”

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

But the Scripture imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder.

Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner.

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

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