Psalms 40:9

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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.

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,

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

I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

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.

But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

then hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men);

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

My praise of you comes in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.

The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

that men may declare Yahweh’s name in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

“Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find out the scheme

Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won’t crow until you have denied me three times.

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

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

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

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth. Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.

I will pay my vows to Yahweh, yes, in the presence of all his people.

“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.

You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.

He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us today),

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,

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

Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Go tell my brothers that they should go into Galilee, and there they will see me.”

I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”

For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the congregation I will sing your praise.”

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.

I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

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