Jonah 3:2

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem) southward; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward.

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.”

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme

Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.

I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’

You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

“Yahweh of Armies says: ‘If you will walk in my ways, and if you will follow my instructions, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give you a place of access among these who stand by.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.

Yahweh’s angel said to Elijah, “Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” Then he arose, and went down with him to the king.

He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not turn toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!

“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.

therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before me forever.’ ”

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I intend to do to them; that they may each return from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.

You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.

For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says,’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.

“So you, son of man: I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me.

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

“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.

Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore you left them in the hands of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them; yet when they returned, and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times you delivered them according to your mercies,

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.

Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book Yahweh’s words in Yahweh’s house.

Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.

“Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.

What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

They went out and preached that people should repent.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Moses told Aaron all Yahweh’s words with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

He answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind, and went.

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: