Matthew 20:12

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

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

Now a mediator is not between one, but God is one.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree,

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in Yahweh’s sight?”

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.

But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one:

To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

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

For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

that no flesh should boast before God.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

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

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

He shall not eat that which dies of itself or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.

God came to Balaam, and said, “Who are these men with you?”

Balaam said to Balak, “Build here seven altars for me, and prepare here seven bulls and seven rams for me.”

God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”

It will happen that everyone who is left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say, “Please put me into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.” ’ ”

He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion. They, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?

The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.

Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;

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

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

“But you profane it, in that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.

But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

But he answered his father, ‘Behold, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed a commandment of yours, but you never gave me a goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,

They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;