Job 19:28

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

When he humbled himself, Yahweh’s wrath turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good things found in Judah.

Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.

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

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.

But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.

“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

Other seed fell on the rock, and as soon as it grew, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

When all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

but came back, and have eaten bread and drank water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread, and drink no water;” your body will not come to the tomb of your fathers.’ ”

All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.

But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him, and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.

They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;