Matthew 7:26

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

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. When I visit them, they will be cast down,” says Yahweh.

“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

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.”

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

The hare, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

“The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

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

The hyraxes are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

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

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

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;

“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.”

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

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.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.

They listened to him, because for a long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

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.

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

If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith also is in vain.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

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

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

The keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever they did there, he was responsible for it.

The hyrax, because it chews the cud but doesn’t have a parted hoof, is unclean to you.

but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?” ’ ”

Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.

You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell among the children of Israel.’ ”

Nevertheless these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of those who have the hoof split: the camel, the hare, and the rabbit. Because they chew the cud but don’t part the hoof, they are unclean to you.

They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

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.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

Jesus answered, “I don’t have a demon, but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

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

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

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.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.