Luke 7:29

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.

“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.

Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to Yahweh, and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

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

The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power and reigned.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”

But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”

However you are just in all that has come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

The King’s strength also loves justice. You establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

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

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

“Remember that you magnify his work, about which men have sung.

I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

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.”

But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.

He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.

He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”

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

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

I heard the angel of the waters saying, “You are righteous, who are and who were, O Holy One, because you have judged these things.