Luke 19:20

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

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

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.

“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

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

and she looked, and behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the tradition was, with the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, “Treason! Treason!”

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

“ ‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

He cried aloud, and said this, ‘Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches! Shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit! Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

“Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, ‘Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky. Let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

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

Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, was producing death in me through that which is good; that through the commandment sin might become exceedingly sinful.

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

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

for our God is a consuming fire.

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with their sound.

But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”

Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.

Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

both young men and maidens; old men and children:

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man swallows it up.

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

When they came near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’

But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.

As he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked him privately,

When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod’s steward; Susanna; and many others; who served them from their possessions.

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’

As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,

Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet.

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings.

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.