Psalms 73:1

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.

Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Then Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

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

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Who can say, “I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?”

He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully is the king’s friend.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”

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.

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.

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,

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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,

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness. He rewarded me according to the cleanness of my hands.

Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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

being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

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

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then you are illegitimate, and not children.

Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn’t listen to Balaam, but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.

His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.

So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;

of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king.

Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. They sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshiped.

For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

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

Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

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

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you,