John 9:18

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

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

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

“Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

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.”

But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”

But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service 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.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!” They fell on their faces.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

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

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

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.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

The local governors, the deputies, and the governors, and the king’s counselors, being gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power on their bodies. The hair of their head wasn’t singed. Their pants weren’t changed, the smell of fire wasn’t even on them.

Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

The Jews therefore answered him, “What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?”

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don’t receive our witness.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

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

They said therefore to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.

They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,

Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

For this time I will send all my plagues against your heart, against your officials, and against your people; that you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

While he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him violently. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

“He said to him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.’ ”

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

This is John’s testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

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

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’

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.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.