Matthew 23:3

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

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.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by Yahweh’s words, to cleanse Yahweh’s house.

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn’t do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.”

You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

Then they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, doesn’t respect you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

They cry to me, ‘My God, we Israel acknowledge you!’

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn’t keep it!”

In all, we were two hundred seventy-six souls on the ship.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”

Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”

He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.

Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced, because of that which God had prepared for the people; for the thing was done suddenly.

Also the hand of God came on Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by Yahweh’s word.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I’m going, sir,’ but he didn’t go.

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

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

But he who hears, and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.