John 4:34

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

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.

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

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

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

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.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

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

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

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.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

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

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

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

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

Even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.”

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

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

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.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

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

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’ ”

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.

rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

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.

Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing.

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

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.’

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”