Psalms 71:18

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’

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

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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.”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

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

But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

Be very careful, for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the middle of the fire,

Be careful, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a carved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.

At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”

I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn’t listen to your words in all that you command him shall himself be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

He appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

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.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your son’s son, what things I have done to Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that you may know that I am Yahweh.”

You shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’

When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.

The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

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

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.

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

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

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me.

All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, for they have heard the words of your mouth.

yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.