John 8:6

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

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.”

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

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.

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

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

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

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”

“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

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

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

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

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

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

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.

“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

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

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.

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

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, “This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food.”

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

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

Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.