Proverbs 29:13

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

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,

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

Yet he didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and revived us a little in our bondage.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

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.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.

But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

Give ear to my words, Yahweh. Consider my meditation.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are completely cut off.’

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

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?”

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.”

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

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.

for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,

The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Andrew; Philip; Bartholomew; Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot;

Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

When they had come in, they went up into the upper room where they were staying; that is Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.