John 7:17

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

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

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.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

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.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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

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;

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

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

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

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

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

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

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.”

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

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.

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.’

All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

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

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

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

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

‘Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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.”

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

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.”

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

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.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

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 the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn’t know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from the king which he didn’t tell her.

He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

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.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

For whoever does the will of God is my brother, my sister, and mother.”

Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”

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.

Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”

He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside, and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

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.”

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

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.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.