Luke 2:37

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

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

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.

“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.

And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

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

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

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.

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

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

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

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,

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.

He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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.

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

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.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

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

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

“You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

For who is God, besides Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God?

These are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the rooms and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,

Don’t fear, neither be afraid. Haven’t I declared it to you long ago, and shown it? You are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Indeed, there is not. I don’t know any other Rock.”

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

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

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

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.

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

A voice came from the throne, saying, “Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!”

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

in the courts of Yahweh’s house, in the middle of you, Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh’s name! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh,

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

you who stand in Yahweh’s house, in the courts of our God’s house.

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

“But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.

So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh’s house!

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

There is no one as holy as Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

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

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.

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

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.

They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.

They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.