Jonah 1:14

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

“ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

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

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

“One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.

who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

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

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?

As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard.

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But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh.

So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

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.

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

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.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses’ entry to the king’s house, and she was slain there.

Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.

Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and animal, and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let them turn everyone from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”

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.

While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no more of promise; but God has granted it to Abraham by promise.

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the image of God.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Yahweh, in trouble they have visited you. They poured out a prayer when your chastening was on them.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

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.”

But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,