Numbers 27:16

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.”

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

I will set up shepherds over them, who will feed them. They will no longer be afraid or dismayed, neither will any be lacking,” says Yahweh.

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

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.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak rose up and began to build God’s house which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets of God, helping them.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was gathered;

and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

After the earthquake a fire passed; but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a still small voice.

but the children of the murderers he didn’t put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.”

He will build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever.

He shall build a house for my name; and he will be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.’

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

“Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, your days approach that you must die. Call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him.” Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.

Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for. Behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

Behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place shall build the house for my name.’

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

“ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

They prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two you have chosen

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

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.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.