Matthew 21:46

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

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

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets that he will be called a Nazarene.

But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”

He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ’ ”

But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”

Some of them would have arrested him, but no one laid hands on him.

The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?

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

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come upon you.

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.”

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” There was division among them.

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down, like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”

If we should say, ‘From men’ ”—they feared the people, for all held John to really be a prophet.

Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.

Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

Therefore David himself calls him Lord, so how can he be his son?” The common people heard him gladly.

Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.