Matthew 8:9
Greek Text— Matthew 8:9For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
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It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the sky’s windows opened.
Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
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.
For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
“ ‘Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “I will even tear it with a stormy wind in my wrath. There will be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it.
“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?’
Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!” When the demon had thrown him down in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no harm.
But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.
Moses stretched out his rod toward the heavens, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail; and lightning flashed down to the earth. Yahweh rained hail on the land of Egypt.
“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
He makes his messengers winds, and his servants flames of fire.
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.
He gives snow like wool, and scatters frost like ashes.
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.
He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.
When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
They came to him, and awoke him, saying, “Master, master, we are dying!” He awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and it was calm.
Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.
So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
seeing your pure behavior in fear.
The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an east wind on the land all that day, and all night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Yahweh sent an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.
Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.
Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by Yahweh will be many.
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, “Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,
He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.
Demons also came out of many, crying out, and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
He stretched out his hand, and touched him, saying, “I want to. Be made clean.” Immediately the leprosy left him.
For I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go!’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
But as they sailed, he fell asleep. A wind storm came down on the lake, and they were taking on dangerous amounts of water.
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
Immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.
His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, “Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him.”
He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night.”
“Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix: Greetings.
So the soldiers, carrying out their orders, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.
of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,