YRS God Relating to Self

God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

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

God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

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.

Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.

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

These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.

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

"Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Shall you build me a house for me to dwell in?

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

but my loving kindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before you.

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, "Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?

What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

"Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing."

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.

Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah.

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

Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

Save, Yahweh! Let the King answer us when we call!

You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.

For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

he will make your righteousness go forth as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

A man's goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

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.

For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.

Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.

"Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

"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.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more."

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;

Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

I love Yahweh, because he listens to my voice, and my cries for mercy.

Because he has turned his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul."

Yahweh preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.

Return to your rest, my soul, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

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

Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.

For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don't leave my soul destitute.

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

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

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.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name's sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

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.

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

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

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright.

Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

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

Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.

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.

For thus says Yahweh to me, "As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds is called together against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them, so Yahweh of Armies will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its heights.

Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:

and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:

and he said to me, "You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified."

Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength);

yes, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth."

Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."

Thus says Yahweh, "In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:

Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king's matter.

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

The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

There was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

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, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

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

Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.

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.

Then the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,

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,

"Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

"Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

The Word of Yahweh came the second time to Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,

Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;

James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;

The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,

You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"

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."

who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."

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

He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

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

I didn't recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter).

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, "Follow me."

Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!"

Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

He said to him, "Most certainly, I tell you, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can't see the Kingdom of God."

Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God!

Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.'

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

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

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

Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."

Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk."

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."

It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.

The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.

You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent.

All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.

He said, "For this cause have I said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father."

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

Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don't know.

I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."

Then Jesus said, "I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Jesus was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, "Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?"

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

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.

He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don't hear, because you are not of God."

Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

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

and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."

Even now I know that, whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Now he didn't say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.

A large crowd therefore of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying about it.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Father, glorify your name!" Then there came a voice out of the sky, saying, "I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."

He who sees me sees him who sent me.

He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."

Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.

If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."

Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

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

Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

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."

Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rabboni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"

Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.

Then he said to Thomas, "Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don't be unbelieving, but believing."

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.

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."

He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."

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.

Most certainly I tell you, when you were young, you dressed yourself, and walked where you wanted to. But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you, and carry you where you don't want to go."

Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me."

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?"

Jesus said to him, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you? You follow me."

A voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat!"

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

But arise, get down, and go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them."

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

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God."

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,

When Peter had come to himself, he said, "Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting."

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

When he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, to whom he also testified, 'I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my will.'

But God raised him from the dead,

that God has fulfilled the same to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son. Today I have become your father.'

"Concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he has spoken thus: 'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'

Therefore he says also in another psalm, 'You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.'

But he whom God raised up saw no decay.

God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, "Don't be afraid, but speak and don't be silent;

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city."

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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

"Those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they didn't understand the voice of him who spoke to me.

I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' The Lord said to me, 'Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.'

He said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.'

"He said to me, 'Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.'"

The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.'

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

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

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,

Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

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:

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.

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 thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don't know, or whether out of the body, I don't know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don't know; God knows),

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

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

You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.

For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

saying, "What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, "Don't be afraid. I am the first and the last,

Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter;

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. He who overcomes won't be harmed by the second death.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

and I will give him the morning star.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.