Romans 9:20

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.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

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.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

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,

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

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.

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

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

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

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.”

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

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.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

“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.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

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

but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

The first man is of the earth, made of dust. The second man is the Lord from heaven.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should be adversaries to me today? Shall any man be put to death today in Israel? For don’t I know that I am king over Israel today?”

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

The Lord Yahweh says to these bones: “Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you will live.

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

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

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.

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Therefore Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

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.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

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

But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”

“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren’t your ways unequal?

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?

Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.

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.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.