John 3:9

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

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.

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.’

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

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

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

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

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.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord Yahweh, you know.”

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.

Every valley will be filled. Every mountain and hill will be brought low. The crooked will become straight, and the rough ways smooth.

Judas the son of James; and Judas Iscariot, who also became a traitor.

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

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.

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

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

The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

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

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”

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.

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.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth. I will break the doors of bronze in pieces and cut apart the bars of iron.

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”

yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow.”

Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down out of heaven.”

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.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

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

They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.

What is this word that he said, ‘You will seek me, and won’t find me;’ and ‘Where I am, you can’t come’?”

They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”