Mark 4:13

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

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

“Son of man, hasn’t the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

The people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?”

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

When Jesus had finished these parables, he departed from there.

With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.

Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”

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

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

In the fifth of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity,

and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.

“When the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

He answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”

Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn’t speak to them,

So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

He taught them many things in parables, and told them in his teaching,

He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

“I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

Yahweh, correct me, but gently; not in your anger, lest you reduce me to nothing.

I have made your forehead as a diamond, harder than flint. Don’t be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.

Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”

In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,

Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”

Then the angel who talked with me came forward, and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes, and see what this is that is appearing.”

Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?” They answered him, “Yes, Lord.”

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Jesus answered and spoke to them again in parables, saying,

“Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.

He summoned them, and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

But they didn’t understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

He began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, put a hedge around it, dug a pit for the wine press, built a tower, rented it out to a farmer, and went into another country.

They tried to seize him, but they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spoke the parable against them. They left him, and went away.

Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a towel and wrapped a towel around his waist.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.

So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back on, and sat down again, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?