Jeremiah 9:3

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

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.”

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain 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.

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.’ ”

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.

In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

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.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

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.”

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;

He said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’ ”

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

He said also to me, “You will again see more of the great abominations which they do.”

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.