Psalms 71:17

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.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

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,

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

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

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

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

Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

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

They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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.

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.

The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.

The king swore, and said, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

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

Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.

Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing.

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

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

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

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.

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.

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

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.

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”

Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works.

I will teach you about the hand of God. I will not conceal that which is with the Almighty.

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard and tell of all your wondrous deeds.

Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.