Nehemiah 8:12

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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.’

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.

But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

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

Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”

He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

They sang to one another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, “For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel.” All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because the foundation of Yahweh’s house had been laid.

Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.

Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

Give us today our daily bread.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little book. He said to me, “Take it, and eat it. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make what he has done known among the peoples.

Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, “For he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever!” then the house was filled with a cloud, even Yahweh’s house,

Let still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.

I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

and ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. They made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him before Yahweh to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

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

Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.

the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to be reversed as at the first,” says Yahweh.

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.