Psalms 119:69

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

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

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.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

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.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

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.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, or laborers of this house of God.

There were also some who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

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

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

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

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

“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.

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

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?

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

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?”

So these nations feared Yahweh, and also served their engraved images. Their children did likewise, and so did their children’s children. They do as their fathers did to this day.

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.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

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

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

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

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

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.

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

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

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” Then they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.

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

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

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