Luke 21:23

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”

“But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is at hand.

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

Shepherds with their flocks will come to her. They will pitch their tents against her all around. They will feed everyone in his place.”

“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”

“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

Wail, you inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the people of Canaan are undone! All those who were loaded with silver are cut off.

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.” ’

I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, an astonishment, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

Lay siege against it, build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it. Also set camps against it and plant battering rams against it all around.

Therefore the fathers will eat the sons within you, and the sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you; and I will scatter the whole remnant of you to all the winds.

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

But let him who is taught in the word share all good things with him who teaches.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

“You shall not take a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.”

Yahweh of Armies says: “Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”

For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?