Job 15:16

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

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.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

A corrupt witness mocks justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down iniquity.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.

They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

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.

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

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

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

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

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.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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.

But Yahweh is the true God. He is the living God, and an everlasting King. At his wrath, the earth trembles. The nations aren’t able to withstand his indignation.

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.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “In the first month, in the first day of the month, you shall take a young bull without defect; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

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

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

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

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes. Your defenses are defenses of clay.

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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?

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.