John 9:2

Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Jerusalem?

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.

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

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

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.

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

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

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’?”

until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?”

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

“You shall not murder.

If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,

Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;

Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”

and that whoever didn’t come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his possessions should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.

They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

Misfortune pursues sinners, but prosperity rewards the righteous.

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; no one will support him.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread, and wear our own clothing. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our reproach.”

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

As if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, and a snake bit him.

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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.

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

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

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

But this multitude that doesn’t know the law is cursed.”

They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”

They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

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,

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

and that no one would be able to buy or to sell, unless he has that mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.