John 4:12

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;

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

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 bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to Yah.

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”

Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.

Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

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.

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

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

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

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.

I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.

“ ‘If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them,

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

“But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

or who does not do any of those things, but even has eaten at the mountain shrines, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house. His hands shall also finish it; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

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

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

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.

For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?