Luke 11:40

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Yahweh God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever—”

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

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

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from 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.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

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

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

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

“Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

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.”

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

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

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

that you must turn away today from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.

God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

For there are three who testify:

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

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and sea creature, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind;

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

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.”

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.

The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?