John 9:34

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

If one man sins against another, God will judge him; but if a man sins against Yahweh, who will intercede for him?” Notwithstanding, they didn’t listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh intended to kill them.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

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

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

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

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

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.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

The hands of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.

“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?

They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

Jesus therefore answered, “It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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.

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.

They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now we will deal worse with you than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

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.”

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.

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,

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.

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

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.

“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.

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.

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,

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

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

“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.

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.