Luke 14:1

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his relatives to eat bread. They ate bread, and stayed all night in the mountain.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

Then certain of the elders of the land rose up, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the middle of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

He sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to Yahweh.

He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they declared God to be just, having been baptized with John’s baptism.

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man, and a drunkard; a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

They weren’t able to trap him in his words before the people. They marveled at his answer and were silent.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.