Matthew 24:48

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

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.

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

who say, “Let him make haste, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!”

Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

Behold, they ask me, “Where is Yahweh’s word? Let it be fulfilled now.”

who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’

Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for many days.”

You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

For there is no partiality with God.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.

David said to him, “Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have slain Yahweh’s anointed.’ ”

But he said, “As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” He urged him to take it; but he refused.

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

Simon the Zealot; and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it, for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

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

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

When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

You have done evil more than your fathers, for behold, you each walk after the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that you don’t listen to me.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless.

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests,

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

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.”

During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’

Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

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.

He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’

“Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.’

Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.

“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.

“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”