John 8:21

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.

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,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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.

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

But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”

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.

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

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

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and takes any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’

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.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

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

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

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

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

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

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.

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

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”

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

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

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

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.

They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

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 prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

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.

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

Behold, one came to him and said, “Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?”

Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

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

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

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.”

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

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.

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

who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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.

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.

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.”

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.

As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for no one can stand before you because of this.”

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

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

“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he will die in his iniquity.

“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”

For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

He left them, and again entering into the boat, departed to the other side.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’ ”

For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

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.

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,