Mark 12:24

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.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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,

But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

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

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.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

‘I have made the earth, the men, and the animals that are on the surface of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm. I give it to whom it seems right to me.

“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”

Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

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

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

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

Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.

Yahweh of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says Yahweh of Armies.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

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?

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me.

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

“Death, where is your sting? Hades, where is your victory?”

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken.”