Romans 2:15

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

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.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

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

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.

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

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

“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 we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

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

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

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.”

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.

As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Cain left Yahweh’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women!” Then Samuel cut Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.

As for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day 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.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off, scavenged under my table. As I have done, so God has done to me.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron,

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”