Job 36:21

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

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

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

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

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

Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

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.

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

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

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

“Therefore don’t pray for this people. Don’t lift up cry or prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.

He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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

He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

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

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

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

that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

“If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.

“ ‘ “For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself.

“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.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

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

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

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

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.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

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

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

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

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

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.

At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ship which he had made,

“ ‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.’ ”

He said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? Therefore you will not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but you will surely die.’ ”

(for Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, and five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the middle of the court; and he stood on it, and knelt down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven)

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they will not be able to escape; and they will cry to me, but I will not listen to them.

Therefore speak to them, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;

“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

He said to the man who had his hand withered, “Stand up.”

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God.

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.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

“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.