Matthew 15:12

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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.

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

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

The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

When they came near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

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

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

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

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

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 sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

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

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

and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

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.

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

“Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?”

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

They asked him, “Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?”

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

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, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.