Luke 12:30

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “You rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

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.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

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?

The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

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

He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

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.

They weren’t able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

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.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

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

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

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.”

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

This is the bread which came down out of heaven—not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

and all ate the same spiritual food;

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

There will be no night, and they need no lamp light or sun light; for the Lord God will illuminate them. They will reign forever and ever.

When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.

and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

He has given food to those who fear him. He always remembers his covenant.

If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way to you.

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,