Matthew 20:15

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

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

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day.

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

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.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

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.

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

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

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

Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.

When the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Yahweh said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”

God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

But he was angry, and would not go in. Therefore his father came out, and begged him.

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”

“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.”

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

Dominion was given him, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which will not pass away, and his kingdom that which will not be destroyed.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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?’ ”

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

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.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.

Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.

Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man ask of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.”

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

He said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim Yahweh’s name before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

You shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for I have given the land to you to possess it.

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

She said to the men, “I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.

Saul watched David from that day and forward.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.

Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, so he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

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?”

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

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.