Romans 2:18

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

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

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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.

seeing it is God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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;

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

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

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

Everyone who comes to me, and hears my words, and does them, I will show you who he is like.

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,

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

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?”

This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?

He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

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

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

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