Romans 7:16

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

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.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

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.

God spoke all these words, saying,

Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight.

But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

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

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.

But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

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.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

After Methuselah’s birth, Enoch walked with God for three hundred years, and became the father of more sons and daughters.

and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.

Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

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

Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

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 let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

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

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

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

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

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

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

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

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.”

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

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

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

You are righteous, Yahweh. Your judgments are upright.

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

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.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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.

“You also came down on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

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

Your promises have been thoroughly tested, and your servant loves them.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

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

But we know that the law is good, if a person uses it lawfully,