Luke 12:3

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

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.

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.

He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.

It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.

(yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

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

You have heard it. Now see all this. And you, won’t you declare it? “I have shown you new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.

Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

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.

“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

The man said to me, “Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I will show you; for you have been brought here so that I may show them to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”

“In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors have come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, will stand up.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.

Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”

Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.

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.’

“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.

preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

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

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.