Matthew 16:8
Greek Text— Matthew 16:8Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’
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For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
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.
then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men)
won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.
Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh— how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.
for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.
For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”
They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that Yahweh’s word in your mouth is truth.”
I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.
I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.
You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
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.
For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won’t be harmed by the second death.
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their seeds in it, on the earth;” and it was so.
When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.
He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.
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.”
He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
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.
But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?
Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves.
Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.