John 8:52

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

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.

Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste of death, until they see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.”

Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there are some standing here who will in no way taste death until they see God’s Kingdom come with power.”

But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here who will in no way taste of death until they see God’s Kingdom.”

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don’t hide it from me!”

Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs.

These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?

One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

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.”

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

The Jews therefore said, “Will he kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come’?”

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

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.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.