John 5:7

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

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

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,

For Yahweh will judge his people and have compassion on his servants.

A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.

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;

Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand.”

therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it is all gone.

Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will utterly sweep you away and will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, and him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

For the whole house of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab everyone who urinates against a wall, both him who is shut up and him who is left at large in Israel.

For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for all, slave and free, and there was no helper for Israel.

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

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.

There is no one to guide her among all the sons to whom she has given birth; and there is no one who takes her by the hand among all the sons who she has brought up.

The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.

‘If you will still live in this land, then I will build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.

Who knows? He may turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.

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

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

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.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

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 this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Then I will also admit to you that your own right hand can save you.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

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.

Pass through your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any more.

And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has come to him?” He said, “From childhood.

It also happened on another Sabbath that he entered into the synagogue and taught. There was a man there, and his right hand was withered.

When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”

A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

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

who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;