John 1:38

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

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.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

People went out to see what had happened. They came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting at Jesus’ feet, clothed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter.

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”

the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.

“He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

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

He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times.”

I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God.”

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.

Those who were in the boat came and worshiped him, saying, “You are truly the Son of God!”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

Therefore Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my 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.

She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”

They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, he baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.”

These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him, “Rabboni!” which is to say, “Teacher!”

A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field. The man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

As these went their way, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,

Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the Lord’s word, how he said to him, “Before the rooster crows you will deny me three times.”

He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”

Peter went down to the men, and said, “Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?”

Therefore I also came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?”

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”