Psalms 78:22

“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.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

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.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

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

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”

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

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

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

Yet they didn’t obey, nor turn their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of their evil heart. Therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn’t do them.’ ”

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

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

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

But I will bring your little ones that you said should be captured or killed in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

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.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, will even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

in that day I swore to them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.

Yahweh’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,

When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him or listen to his voice.

For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.

However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share;

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.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Yet in this thing you didn’t believe Yahweh your God,

Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’ ”

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.