S Self

God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

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.

These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.

They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

my loving kindness, my fortress, my high tower, my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge; who subdues my people under me.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

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

For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my reward with my God."

The king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.

As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

"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.

He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.

Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;

There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John.

As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"

I have come in my Father's name, and you don't receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."

Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.

Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, wasn't with them when Jesus came.

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?" Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, "Do you have affection for me?" He said to him, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, "What is it, Lord?" He said to him, "Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you.

But Paul didn't think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn't go with them to do the work.

I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.'

I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."

"I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' "He said, 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

But one has somewhere testified, saying, "What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,