Psalms 82:5

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.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

He will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.’

For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

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

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.

Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.

Yahweh reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad!

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

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

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

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

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.