Luke 13:24

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

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.

Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Pray without ceasing.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us. Establish the work of our hands for us. Yes, establish the work of our hands.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

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.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

Yahweh said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break out against them.”

They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Before the rooms was a walk of ten cubits’ width inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.

From the days of John the Baptizer until now, the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

You will seek me, and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”

Jesus said therefore again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can’t come.”

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. One will be taken and the other will be left.