Matthew 19:4

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

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

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

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

He created them male and female, and blessed them. On the day they were created, he named them Adam.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Moreover he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

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.

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

for man wasn’t created for the woman, but woman for the man.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

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

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.”

Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he called the Lord ‘The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Thus Noah did. He did all that God commanded him.

and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’ ”

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

But concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read that which was spoken to you by God, saying,

He said to them, “Did you never read what David did, when he had need, and was hungry—he, and those who were with him?

Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner.

But about the dead, that they are raised; haven’t you read in the book of Moses, about the Bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

Jesus, answering them, said, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, he, and those who were with him;