Psalms 12:4

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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.”

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,

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

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,

I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

“You shall not blaspheme God, nor curse a ruler of your people.

In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.

You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

Then Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your children are careful of their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you,’ he said, ‘a man on the throne of Israel.’

Also our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’

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 children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up.

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.

“They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.

But he spoke of the temple of his body.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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

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.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.

You shall observe and do that which has gone out of your lips. Whatever you have vowed to Yahweh your God as a free will offering, which you have promised with your mouth, you must do.

After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

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

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

God of my praise, don’t remain silent,

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

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

“The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?

“ ‘ “That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’

“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.

and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

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

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;

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

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good; but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace. Who is that god that will deliver you out of my hands?”

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

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.”

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.

Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,