Luke 6:7

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.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

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

Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,

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

The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

So a division arose in the multitude because of him.

So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

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

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem:

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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.”

And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

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

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.”

So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

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.

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

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

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

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

But those who seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

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

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Yahweh says: “You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written therein, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cause to cease from there man and animal?’ ” ’

‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

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.

For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

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

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

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!’

Behold, a man named Jairus came. He was a ruler of the synagogue. He fell down at Jesus’ feet, and begged him to come into his house,

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

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

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 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.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

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

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for the arbiter in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”

Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;