Jeremiah 42:5

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.

I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

“ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

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

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Listen now to what Yahweh says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”

For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives in addition to my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

If the stolen property is found in his hand alive, whether it is ox, donkey, or sheep, he shall pay double.

For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

“ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I not die.”

The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh will be witness between us. Surely we will do what you say.”

Then Eli answered, “Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.”

Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

O earth, earth, earth, hear Yahweh’s word!

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’ ”

“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Pray without ceasing.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

“You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.

They said to Moses, “Speak with us yourself, and we will listen; but don’t let God speak with us, lest we die.”

He said to them, “Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” They said, “He is witness.”

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’ ” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,