YCC God Checking Religion

"'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.

"'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.

"'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;

"'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

"'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.

"'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.

I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

and went and served other gods, and worshiped them, gods that they didn't know, and that he had not given to them:

In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, did I say a word to any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel, saying, 'Why have you not built me a house of cedar?'"'

What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?

Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don't seek Yahweh!

Yet he also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity.

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn't this true, you children of Israel?" says Yahweh.

"For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord Yahweh.

"Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

"Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

"Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of Armies.

The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."

He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their works.

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

Behold, the days come," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh.

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

"Don't think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill.

For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.

but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin"

I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn't receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

They understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they didn't understand the things that were said.

Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?

Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

But if you don't believe his writings, how will you believe my words?"

But he said to them, "It is I. Don't be afraid."

Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.

But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?

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.

Jesus said therefore to the twelve, "You don't also want to go away, do you?"

Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her."

Jesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.

They said therefore to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me, nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."

Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

Jesus answered them, "Isn't it written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?'

Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with me."

Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you."

For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You are not all clean."

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

"Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.

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

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.

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.

"These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'

about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won't see me any more;

"I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.

Therefore Jesus perceived that they wanted to ask him, and he said to them, "Do you inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me?'

"In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe?

Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"

Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn't be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here."

This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them.

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

For if the service of condemnation has glory, the service of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation--which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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.

Repent therefore, or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

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.