Matthew 12:24

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

but nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

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

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

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

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

Jesus answered them, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don’t know where I came from, or where I am going.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

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!”

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

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

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

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

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Then the Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, ‘If a man keeps my word, he will never taste of death.’

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 to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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;

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

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

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

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?

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’ ”

But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?”

Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.