Malachi 2:6

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

You shall be blameless with Yahweh your God.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”

You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”

I was also perfect toward him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

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.

I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

saying, “Return now everyone from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of old and even forever more.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

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.

They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.