Matthew 6:23

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand. You see indeed, but don’t perceive.’

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

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,

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

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.”

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

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.”

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.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

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.’

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

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

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

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.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

However that which is spiritual isn’t first, but that which is natural, then that which is spiritual.

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

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

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.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

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

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

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;

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

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,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

“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.”

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

“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.

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.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

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?’

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.’

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

“When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

he is a leprous man. He is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean. His plague is on his head.

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

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

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.