Psalms 119:176

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,

But it was appropriate to celebrate and be glad, for this, your brother, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ ”

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

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

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”

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

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found by them. Then Yahweh gave them rest all around.

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

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

He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

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.

“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.”

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.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”

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

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

Take me away with you. Let’s hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! They are right to love you.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

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.

But he answered, “I wasn’t sent to anyone but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

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.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill. They have forgotten their resting place.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

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

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

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

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

Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

“ ‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

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.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.