CAU Religion as Nature

They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.

They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!

Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.

saying to those who are bound, 'Come out!'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves!' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.

It will happen in that day, that the mountains will drop down sweet wine, the hills will flow with milk, all the brooks of Judah will flow with waters, and a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, and will water the valley of Shittim.

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

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Don't you say, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

"Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn't enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don't know the voice of strangers."

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn't listen to them.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

But you don't believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't know what I will choose.

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven assemblies. The seven lampstands are seven assemblies.