Matthew 20:34

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

Jesus came out, saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

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,

who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.

When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,

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.

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

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes on the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue.

He said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. Yahweh said, ‘These have no master. Let them each return to his house in peace.’ ”

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

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

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

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

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

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

and having a great priest over God’s house,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a band of raiders; and they threw the man into Elisha’s tomb. As soon as the man touched Elisha’s bones, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the remission of their sins,

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

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

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

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.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

He touched her hand, and the fever left her. She got up and served him.

Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”

He took him aside from the multitude, privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue.

When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed him.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

“I have compassion on the multitude, because they have stayed with me now three days, and have nothing to eat.

Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”

came behind him, and touched the fringe of his cloak. Immediately the flow of her blood stopped.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.