John 8:37

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

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.

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

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.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face to God.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

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

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

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.

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.

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

He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

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.”

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

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

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

he left Judea and departed into Galilee.

The disciples asked him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you. Are you going there again?”

Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

to whom it was said, “Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,”

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

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.

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

But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again; and I would heal them.’

You don’t have his word living in you, because you don’t believe him whom he sent.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Didn’t Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?”

Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, “Isn’t this he whom they seek to kill?

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

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

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

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

Therefore Jews took up stones again to stone him.

So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”