Luke 7:30

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

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

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

His roots will be dried up beneath. His branch will be cut off above.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

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

Now if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people have received the law), what further need was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.

“Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to them, but they have not answered.’ ”

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.

“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.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

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

Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

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.

‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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

On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

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

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.