Psalms 141:4

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

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

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

Depart! Depart! Go out from there! Touch no unclean thing! Go out from among her! Cleanse yourselves, you who carry Yahweh’s vessels.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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 ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

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

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

“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

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,

He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.

“My people, go away from the middle of her, and each of you save yourselves from Yahweh’s fierce anger.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.

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

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand, but I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.

Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,

Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies:

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

“I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.”

“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.

When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

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

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

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,

There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

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

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.

The children of Israel who had returned out of the captivity, and all who had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, ate,

Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.”

For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

Don’t enter into the path of the wicked. Don’t walk in the way of evil men.

The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.

lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.

the people which I formed for myself, that they might declare my praise.

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

Yahweh said, “Even thus will the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank. Therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

for so was it commanded me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘You shall eat no bread, drink no water, and don’t return by the way that you came.’ ”

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

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

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’