Jeremiah 21:8
Hebrew Text— Jeremiah 21:8“You shall say to this people, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
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Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
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.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?
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;
Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.
Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.
but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes. Don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’
What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”
“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the path was full of garments and equipment which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
In the way of righteousness is life; in its path there is no death.
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.
You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Behold, I will bring a nation on you from far away, house of Israel,” says Yahweh. “It is a mighty nation. It is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you don’t know and don’t understand what they say.
For I have not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?
They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.
“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,