SRN Self Relating to Neighbor

Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

So she stayed close to the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she lived with her mother-in-law.

Now this was [the custom] in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man took off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the [way of] attestation in Israel.

Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, "You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, from the hand of Naomi.

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

Nathan said to the king, "Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you."

It happened the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

May He grant you your heart's desire, and fulfill all your counsel.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

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

"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

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?

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm."

Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things; but the unfaithful crave violence.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

[Beloved] I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's curtains.

Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

The heart of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers will be ready to speak plainly.

My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.

It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.

But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream before him, [saying],

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head on his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.

I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth animal, which was diverse from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;

and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other [horn] which came up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.

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.

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"

Amaziah also said to Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

Then Haggai, Yahweh's messenger, spoke Yahweh's message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says Yahweh.

In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

He summoned them, and said to them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan?

A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."

It happened, as he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.

Hearing a multitude going by, he asked what this meant.

Standing still, Jesus commanded him to be brought to him. When he had come near, he asked him,

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'"

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

This is John's testimony, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

He declared, and didn't deny, but he declared, "I am not the Christ."

He said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said."

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'

John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.

I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God."

Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"

Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.

One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!"

After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"

So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been sick for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to be made well?"

He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'"

Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?"

"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"

He said these things in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?"

Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he."

He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight."

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick."

When therefore he heard that he was sick, he stayed two days in the place where he was.

Then when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary stayed in the house.

and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and see."

So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him.

Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaks."

Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a fire of coals, for it was cold. They were warming themselves. Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.

The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching.

Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?"

He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.

Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!"

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away."

Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.

That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.

Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus' breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray You?"

Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.

Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?"

So he called them in and lodged them. On the next day Peter arose and went out with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.

Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"

and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.

Peter opened his mouth and said, "Truly I perceive that God doesn't show favoritism;

But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,

Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

Thus Paul went out from among them.

When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn't allow him.

Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

But Paul said, "I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people."

When he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the stairs, beckoned with his hand to the people. When there was a great silence, he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, saying,

"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."

When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

When he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all, and he broke it, and began to eat.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,

But I say, didn't they hear? Yes, most certainly, "Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world."

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

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