John 11:9

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

He said to them, “Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it put on a stand?

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

He answered, “Don’t be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

Who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, so that they didn’t stumble?

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

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.

If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said this to him: “Don’t destroy the wise men of Babylon. Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.”

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

He said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Didn’t you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”

for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

But Jesus answered them, “My Father is still working, so I am working, too.”

Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

Then you shall walk in your way securely. Your foot won’t stumble.

Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet would perish outside of Jerusalem.’

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.