John 8:45

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.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

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 answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

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

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

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

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

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.

But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy in Yahweh’s name, that you not die by our hand;’

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

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.

“But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘Don’t prophesy!’

“Don’t prophesy!” They prophesy. “Don’t prophesy about these things. Disgrace won’t overtake us.”

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: “I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;” he would be the prophet of this people.

“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”

Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered, “So you say.”

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

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

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.

For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

They all said, “Are you then the Son of God?” He said to them, “You say it, because I am.”

Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!”

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

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.

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But I came to this time for this cause.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

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

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

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.”

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’