Psalms 37:12

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and a half; and when they have finished breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things will be finished.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

Saul said to David, “Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh’s battles.” For Saul said, “Don’t let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him.”

The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with its towns;

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don’t you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?”

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off—

“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

I saw, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them,

The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might seize him by deception, and kill him.

He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, “Blessed are you who are poor, God’s Kingdom is yours.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

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

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.

Don’t go out into the field or walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and terror are on every side.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

Then he will return into his land with great wealth. His heart will be against the holy covenant. He will take action, and return to his own land.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

They rose up, threw him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill that their city was built on, that they might throw him off the cliff.

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”

But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

His power will be mighty, but not by his own power. He will destroy awesomely, and will prosper in what he does. He will destroy the mighty ones and the holy people.

Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him.

From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

She went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.