Matthew 12:41

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

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.”

From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Now Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Behold, they may gather together, but not by me. Whoever gathers together against you will fall because of you.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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.

Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.

Yahweh says, “Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is near and my righteousness will soon be revealed.

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a troubled voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?”

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to test Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great caravan, including camels that bore spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. When she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

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

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Now when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, “We will surely tell the king of all these words.”

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.

As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

who before were disobedient, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, while the ship was being built. In it, few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

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.

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

Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

and Saul threw the spear, for he said, “I will pin David to the wall!” David escaped from his presence twice.

A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.

then you will delight yourself in Yahweh, and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;” for Yahweh’s mouth has spoken it.

In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell safely. This is his name by which he will be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the house of Israel;

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

“Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lusting than she, and in her prostitution which was more depraved than the prostitution of her sister.

So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.

Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”

A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

saying, “Don’t harm the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads!”

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.

“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Won’t the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

The king and his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, and didn’t tear their garments.

Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.

But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

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.”

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

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.”

Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”