Job 27:8

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

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.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

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

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

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?

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

“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?’

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

“ ‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

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

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings.

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

Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

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

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

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

They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.

The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.

“ ‘ “Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter,

I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.” ’

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.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

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.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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.

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

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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

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.”

He who denounces his friends for plunder, Even the eyes of his children will fail.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

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.

When he is judged, let him come out guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

We love him, because he first loved us.

I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.

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

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

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

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

He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?

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

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? Should I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you!

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

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.