I praise the LORD, because he guides me, and in the night my conscience warns me.

The LORD says, "I will teach you the way you should go; I will instruct you and advise you.

You guide me with your instruction and at the end you will receive me with honor.

because they had rebelled against the commands of Almighty God and had rejected his instructions.

You have ignored all my advice and have not been willing to let me correct you.

You have never wanted my advice or paid any attention when I corrected you.

If you listen to advice and are willing to learn, one day you will be wise.

Do what the king says, and don't make any rash promises to God.

Truth, wisdom, learning, and good sense---these are worth paying for, but too valuable for you to sell.

The LORD says, "Come, everyone who is thirsty--- here is water! Come, you that have no money--- buy grain and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk--- it will cost you nothing!

"The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man happens to find a treasure hidden in a field. He covers it up again, and is so happy that he goes and sells everything he has, and then goes back and buys that field.

'No, indeed,' the wise ones answered, 'there is not enough for you and for us. Go to the store and buy some for yourselves.'

He will come to judge like one who refines and purifies silver. As a metalworker refines silver and gold, so the LORD's messenger will purify the priests, so that they will bring to the LORD the right kind of offerings.

Some will use gold or silver or precious stones in building on the foundation; others will use wood or grass or straw.

And the quality of each person's work will be seen when the Day of Christ exposes it. For on that Day fire will reveal everyone's work; the fire will test it and show its real quality.

Their purpose is to prove that your faith is genuine. Even gold, which can be destroyed, is tested by fire; and so your faith, which is much more precious than gold, must also be tested, so that it may endure. Then you will receive praise and glory and honor on the Day when Jesus Christ is revealed.

I know your troubles; I know that you are poor---but really you are rich! I know the evil things said against you by those who claim to be Jews but are not; they are a group that belongs to Satan!

And Jesus concluded, "This is how it is with those who pile up riches for themselves but are not rich in God's sight."

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.

Command them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share with others.

Listen, my dear friends! God chose the poor people of this world to be rich in faith and to possess the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.

But a few of you there in Sardis have kept your clothes clean. You will walk with me, clothed in white, because you are worthy to do so.

Those who win the victory will be clothed like this in white, and I will not remove their names from the book of the living. In the presence of my Father and of his angels I will declare openly that they belong to me.

One of the elders asked me, "Who are these people dressed in white robes, and where do they come from?"

"Listen! I am coming like a thief ! Happy is he who stays awake and guards his clothes, so that he will not walk around naked and be ashamed in public!"

She has been given clean shining linen to wear." (The linen is the good deeds of God's people.)

by being clothed with it we shall not be without a body.

"Listen! I am coming like a thief ! Happy is he who stays awake and guards his clothes, so that he will not walk around naked and be ashamed in public!"

People will see you naked; they will see you humbled and shamed. I will take vengeance, and no one will stop me."

The LORD himself will strip off your clothes and expose you to shame.

Many of those who have already died will live again: some will enjoy eternal life, and some will suffer eternal disgrace.

You people of Shaphir, go into exile, naked and ashamed. Those who live in Zaanan do not dare to come out of their city. When you hear the people of Bethezel mourn, you will know that there is no refuge there.

The LORD Almighty says, "I will punish you, Nineveh! I will strip you naked and let the nations see you, see you in all your shame.

After he said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the spittle; he rubbed the mud on the man's eyes

His neighbors, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, "Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?"

"How is it that you can now see?" they asked him.

But you have had the Holy Spirit poured out on you by Christ, and so all of you know the truth.

Who, then, is the liar? It is those who say that Jesus is not the Messiah. Such people are the Enemy of Christ---they reject both the Father and the Son.

Be sure, then, to keep in your hearts the message you heard from the beginning. If you keep that message, then you will always live in union with the Son and the Father.

I am writing this to you about those who are trying to deceive you.