Romans 14:23

“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.

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

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

Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

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

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,

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.”

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

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

“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.”

Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”

“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

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.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

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

“ ‘Or if anyone touches any unclean thing, whether it is the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean livestock, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it is hidden from him, and he is unclean, then he shall be guilty.

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.

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

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.

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

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?

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

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

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

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.

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;

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

“ ‘If the whole congregation of Israel sins, and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and are guilty;

“ ‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty,

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.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

But I said, ‘Not so, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered into my mouth.’

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save 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.”

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

They shall be on Aaron and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place, that they don’t bear iniquity, and die. This shall be a statute forever to him and to his offspring after him.

“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

“If anyone commits a trespass, and sins unwittingly regarding Yahweh’s holy things, then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.

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?

so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”

because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

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

Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

The soul who sins, he shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Then Haggai answered, “ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

Therefore he who resists the authority withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

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

“If anyone sins, doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, though he didn’t know it, he is still guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.

A high look and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

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.

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.