Romans 14:1

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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

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.”

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh; and they will be drunk on their own blood, as with sweet wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

You eat the fat. You clothe yourself with the wool. You kill the fatlings, but you don’t feed the sheep.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

“Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”

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

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”

Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, and he didn’t see the king’s face.

Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.

Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

Even of these you may eat: any kind of locust, any kind of katydid, any kind of cricket, and any kind of grasshopper.

The priest shall examine him again on the seventh day. Behold, if the plague has faded and the plague hasn’t spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. It is a scab. He shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.

Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the meat of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,