Luke 12:57

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.”

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

They answered him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search, and see that no prophet has arisen out of Galilee.”

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Again he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, ‘You dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word.

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “What, does the Christ come out of Galilee?

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” He lied to him.

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

He said to them, “Come, and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

“Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”

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.

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

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

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

You said, ‘I will be a princess forever,’ so that you didn’t lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

I speak as to wise men. Judge what I say.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

Let the prophets speak, two or three, and let the others discern.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Doesn’t even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.