John 8:11

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

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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.”

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

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

Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

It shall be, when he is guilty of one of these, he shall confess that in which he has sinned;

then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

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.

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Moses answered them, “Wait, that I may hear what Yahweh will command concerning you.”

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

“ ‘ “In a controversy they shall stand to judge. They shall judge it according to my ordinances. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts. They shall make my Sabbaths holy.

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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.

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

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

You shall make judges and officers in all your gates, which Yahweh your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.”

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.’ ”

For what do I have to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,