Luke 1:50

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

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

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you—you, your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

May he grant you your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

The chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers close to them, to praise and give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

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

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he spoke to you and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

When he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to Yahweh, and give praise in holy array, as they go out before the army, and say, “Give thanks to Yahweh; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the middle of her.

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.

the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me, “Assemble the people to me, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.”

But you shall fear Yahweh your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”

and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;

and he said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; you who keep covenant and loving kindness with your servants who walk before you with all their heart;

All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and Yahweh’s glory was on the house. They bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.”

They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.

You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

He will bless those who fear Yahweh, both small and great.

Now let those who fear Yahweh say that his loving kindness endures forever.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also don’t withdraw your hand from that; for he who fears God will come out of them all.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, “Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.