Job 20:5

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

This also will be my salvation, that a godless man will not come before him.

For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

“Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

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

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph?

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

You have multiplied the nation. You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

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

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,

In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years.

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Then all the king’s wise men came in; but they could not read the writing, and couldn’t make known to the king the interpretation.

Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.

in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

He who hates me, hates my Father also.

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.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

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.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

When the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.

Saul was told that David had come to Keilah. Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in by entering into a town that has gates and bars.”

When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?”

In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years.

Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Behold, this is the joy of his way: out of the earth, others will spring.

“Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.

This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.