John 9:40

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

“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.

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.

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

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

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

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

Jesus answered them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

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

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

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

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.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

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.

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.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

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

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

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

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

“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.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

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;

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, when I have uncircumcised lips?”

You shall come to the priests who are Levites and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

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

who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

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

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

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

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.

They say continually to those who despise me, ‘Yahweh has said, “You will have peace;” ’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, ‘No evil will come on you.’

When he was in Benjamin’s gate, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

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

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

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

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 the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

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

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.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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.”

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

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

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

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