Luke 3:10

Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”

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

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame.’

They answered him, “We are Abraham’s offspring, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free’?”

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

brought them out, and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ The Lord said to me, ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

“ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. You shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.”

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”

Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

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

Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

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

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.

He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh’s army.” Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”

Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”

When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did what Yahweh commanded them, and Yahweh accepted Job.

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

“Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear my words.”

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, there was an earthquake. Then the bones came together, bone to its bone.

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?” They answered the king, “True, O king.”

He said to me, “Daniel, you greatly beloved man, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for I have been sent to you, now.” When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,

Jesus came and touched them and said, “Get up, and don’t be afraid.”

But many will be last who are first; and first who are last.

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what must we do?”

Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”

He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”

He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.

They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?”

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.

When the angel who spoke to him had departed, Cornelius called two of his household servants and a devout soldier of those who waited on him continually.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

Send therefore to Joppa, and summon Simon, who is also called Peter. He is staying in the house of a tanner named Simon, by the seaside. When he comes, he will speak to you.’

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

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

Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”