Psalms 32:2

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!

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

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

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.

Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

“ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, please don’t count this sin against us, in which we have done foolishly, and in which we have sinned.

You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don’t let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more.”

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.’

“Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as it is today.”

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid.”

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live.

Jesus answered them, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

“ ‘When you offer an offering of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

and doesn’t bring it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to sacrifice it to Yahweh, that man shall be cut off from his people.

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

Today Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

Now therefore don’t let my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for only Amnon is dead.”

He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.

He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”

Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.

and hasn’t brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh’s tabernacle: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood. That man shall be cut off from among his people.

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”

For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.

He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.

He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed.

Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.