Job 15:4

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Pray without ceasing.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

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:

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”

The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

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

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

“Haven’t you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

You have rejected me,” says Yahweh. “You have gone backward. Therefore I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you. I am weary of showing compassion.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

and they lay themselves down beside every altar on clothes taken in pledge; and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall be utterly cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’ ”

She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

As she continued praying before Yahweh, Eli saw her mouth.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

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

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”