Psalms 119:9

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t this because you are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God?

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

“Yahweh’s Spirit spoke by me. His word was on my tongue.

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

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

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

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

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

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

Jesus said to him, “Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

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

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

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

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

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

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.

“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

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

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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,

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

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

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.

you shall not consent to him nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;

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

Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’

If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

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

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

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

According to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

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

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the Levitical priests.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

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

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

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

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

“Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.

It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated all the mixed multitude from Israel.

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.