John 10:24

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

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

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”

Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.

for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore we also speak;

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

Therefore I am full of Yahweh’s wrath. I am weary with holding it in. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife will be taken, the aged with him who is full of days.

If I say, I will not make mention of him, or speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones. I am weary with holding it in. I can’t.

So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

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

She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces. They said, “Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!”

They feared Yahweh, and also served their own gods, after the ways of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

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

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?”

He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?

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

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

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

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?”

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

As the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he was the Christ,

They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

So Jesus said to them plainly then, “Lazarus is dead.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,