V Vacuum

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

Don't fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

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.

When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Don't incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don't let me eat of their delicacies.

"As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol."

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

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

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

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

For the palace will be forsaken. The populous city will be deserted. The hill and the watchtower will be for dens forever, a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;

Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.

"Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again."

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe.

But there are some of you who don't believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn't believe, and who it was who would betray him.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"

Now he spoke of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, for it was he who would betray him, being one of the twelve.

So there arose a division in the multitude because of him.

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.

Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn't believe in him,

For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again,

I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.'

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.

Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me? Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have denied me three times.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

If I hadn't done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn't have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

about sin, because they don't believe in me;

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.

Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."

Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.

Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"

Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn't remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Therefore the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who was crucified with him;

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

"I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.

However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

But be it so, I did not myself burden you. But, being crafty, I caught you with deception.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

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

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"

They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

"I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

"I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.