John 3:20

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

You will also decree a thing, and it will be established to you. Light will shine on your ways.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

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.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

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

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

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

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

She took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Have all men leave me.” Then every man went out from him.

She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,