Matthew 15:2

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.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

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

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

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

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

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

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

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.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

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

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

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;

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,

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

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

then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

and shall tell them, “Hear, Israel, you draw near today to battle against your enemies. Don’t let your heart faint! Don’t be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, but not with a perfect heart.

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

He has also established them forever and ever. He has made a decree which will not pass away.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord Yahweh.

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

Jesus, answering, began to tell them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

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

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

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;