Psalms 119:144

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in the law to fall.

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:

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

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.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

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.’

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

“Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

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

They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me. Your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

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

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected Yahweh’s word, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.”

Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.

His work is honor and majesty. His righteousness endures forever.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

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.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.