Numbers 5:16

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

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.

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.

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

who “will pay back to everyone according to their works:”

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

“You shall not commit adultery.

“ ‘If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offerings, if he offers it from the herd, whether male or female, he shall offer it without defect before Yahweh.

“Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the sin offering: in the place where the burnt offering is killed, the sin offering shall be killed before Yahweh. It is most holy.

“ ‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.

that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect;

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.

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.

Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

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

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

“ ‘When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’

I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’ ”

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

Let all that you do be done in love.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

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

that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.

Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

He presented the ram of the burnt offering. Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.

then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men)

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

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

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.