And according to Paul's custom, he went in to them, and for three Sabbaths he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

And now stand still, and I will judge you before the Lord; and I will relate to you all the righteousness of the Lord, the things which He has done among you and your fathers.

And come, let us reason together, says the Lord; and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make [them] white as wool.

Your judgment draws near, says the Lord God; your counsel has drawn near, says the King of Jacob.

Therefore, brothers, I exhort you through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be prepared with a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

having hope in God, which even they themselves are waiting for, that there is going to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

Meanwhile he also hoped that money would be given him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore sending for him more often, he was conversing with him.

The God of Israel says, The watchman out of Israel spoke to me a parable: I said among men, How will you strengthen the fear of the anointed?

Also I put on righteousness, and clothed myself with judgment like a mantle.

For the Lord [is] righteous, and loves righteousness; His face beholds uprightness.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness beyond Your companions.

For the end. Destroy not; by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you sons of men?

For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth; your hands plot unrighteousness.

[that he may] judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with judgment.

A Psalm of Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst [of them] will judge gods.

Judge the orphan and poor; do justice to the low and needy.

An evildoer is an abomination to a king, for the throne of rule is established by righteousness.

And moreover I saw under the sun: [In] the place of judgment, wickedness [was] there; and in the place of righteousness, there was godliness.

How has the faithful city of Zion, [once] full of judgment, become a harlot! Where righteousness lodged, but now murderers.

And a throne shall be established with mercy; and one shall sit upon it with truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and earnestly seeking judgments, and hastening righteousness.

For I am the Lord who loves righteousness, and hate robberies of injustice; and I will give their labor to the just, and will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Thus says the Lord: Execute judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him; and oppress not the stranger, the orphan, or widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.

Shall you reign because you are provoked with your father Ahaz? They shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute justice and righteousness.

Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.

Thus says the Lord God: Let it suffice you, you princes of Israel; remove injustice and misery, execute judgment and justice; take away oppression from My people, says the Lord God.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel please you, and atone for your sins by alms, and [your] iniquities by compassion on the poor; [perhaps] God will be longsuffering toward your trespasses.

And what should a king do for us, speaking false professions [as his] words? He will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.

Sow to yourselves for righteousness, gather in for the fruit of life: light for yourselves the light of knowledge; seek the Lord till the fruits of righteousness come upon you.

But let judgment roll down as water, and righteousness as an impassable torrent.

[ 6:13] Will horses run upon rocks? Will they refrain from neighing at mares? For you have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.

And when He comes, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

Little children, let no one deceive you. The [one] who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

Give not your wealth to women, nor your mind and living to remorse. Do all things with counsel: drink wine with counsel.

lest they drink, and forget wisdom, and not be able to judge the poor rightly.

Woe to you, O city, whose king is young, and your princes eat in the morning!

Blessed are you, O land, whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes shall eat seasonably, for strength, and shall not be ashamed.

They shall be left in the spirit of judgment for judgment, and for the strength of them that hinder slaying.

For these have trespassed through wine; they have erred through strong drink; the priest and the prophet are mad through strong drink, they are swallowed up by reason of wine, they have staggered through drunkenness; they have erred; this is [their] vision.

Belshazzar the king made a great supper for his thousand nobles, and [there was] wine before the thousand.

So the gold and silver vessels were brought which [Nebuchadnezzar] had taken out of the temple of God in Jerusalem; and the king, and his nobles, and his mistresses, and his concubines drank out of them.

[In] the days of our kings, the princes began to be inflamed with wine: he stretched out his hand with pestilent fellows.

For John would say to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and he was protecting him. And when he heard him, he did many things, but he would hear him gladly.

And when Herodias' daughter herself came in and danced, and pleased Herod and his dinner guests, the king said to the girl, "Ask me whatever you may want, and I will give it to you."

And when she had gone out, she said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist!"

gentleness, self-control--against such things there is no law.

For the saving grace of God has appeared to all men,

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

In regard to these, they are surprised that you do not run with them in the same flood of debauchery, reviling you.

and with knowledge self-control, and with self-control perseverance, and with perseverance godliness,

And He commanded us to proclaim to the people, and to testify solemnly that He is the [One] having been appointed by God [to be] Judge of the living and the dead.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul in Berea, they came there also, agitating the crowds.

God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silent; a fire shall be kindled before Him, and round about Him there shall be a very great tempest.

He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that He may judge His people.

And I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the ungodly; for there is a time there for every action and for every work.

If you should see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter; for [there is] a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with everything that has been overlooked, whether or evil.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting shame.

"And when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne.

And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on [His] left.

for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;

"Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?

Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?'

"Then He will also say to those on the left, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels:

I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'

"Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to Me.'

in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

So then each of us shall give account concerning himself to God.

So then judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who also will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make clear the purposes of the hearts. Then each one's praise shall come from God.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, in accordance with the things which he did, whether good or bad.

and to give you who are being afflicted rest along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels,

These shall pay a penalty--eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might,

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge the living and the dead in accordance with His appearing and His kingdom:

of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

And just as it is appointed for men once to die, and after this judgment,

They will render an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Then I saw a great white throne and He who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled. And no place was found for them.

And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to their works.

And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire.

Now having heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Men and brothers, what shall we do?"

"But stand up and enter into the city, and it will be spoken to you what you must do."

And asking for a light he rushed in, and coming trembling, he fell before Paul and Silas,

And because of the word, Ahab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Naboth the Jezreelite, and went his way.

because your heart was softened, and you were humbled before [Me], when you heard all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be utterly destroyed and accursed, and you tore your clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard, says the Lord.

Now then let us make a covenant with our God, to put away all the wives, and their offspring, as you advise:

So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. This [was] the ninth month. On the twentieth day of the month all the people sat down in the street of the house of the Lord, because of their alarm concerning the word, and because of the storm.

A Psalm of David. The Lord reigns; let the people tremble! [It is He] that sits upon the cherubim, let the earth be moved.

Penetrate my flesh with Your fear; for I am afraid of Your judgments.

Be amazed, be pained, you confident ones; strip, bare yourselves, gird your loins

For all these things are Mine, says the Lord; and to whom will I have respect, but to the humble and meek, and the [man] that trembles [at] My words?

Behold, are not My words as fire? Says the Lord; and as an axe cutting the rock?

I watched, and my belly trembled at the sound of the prayer of my lips, and trembling entered into my bones, and my frame was troubled within me; I will rest in the day of affliction, from going up to the people of my sojourning.

Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law [comes] [the] knowledge of sin.

But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an unlearned person comes in, he is reproved by all, he is discerned by all.

And so the secrets of his heart become clear; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God, reporting that God is truly among you!

But the Scripture has confined all under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

Therefore let us fear, lest while the promise remains to enter into His rest, anyone of you seems to have fallen short.

For the word of God is living and effectual, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

And so fearful was the spectacle, [that] Moses said, "I am greatly afraid and trembling."

You believe God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe--and they shudder!

and he brought them forth outside and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all those in his house.

And bringing them up into his house, he set a meal before them; and he rejoiced with his whole house, having believed in God.

And Agrippa said to Paul, "In a short time, you are persuading me to become a Christian!"

And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and take him away to Semer the keeper of the city;

and tell Joash the king's son to put this [fellow] in prison, and to feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I return in peace.

Since I called, and you did not hear, and I spoke at length, and you gave no heed;

therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:

For it shall be that when you call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me.

neither would they attend to my counsels, but derided my reproofs.

For because they wronged the simple, they shall be slain; and an inquisition shall ruin the ungodly.

Then Zedekiah sent, and called him; and the king asked him secretly, saying, Is there a word from the Lord? And he said, There is. You shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon.

And where are your prophets who prophesied to you saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against this land?

Then the king commanded, and they cast him into the prison, and gave him a loaf a day out of the place where they bake, until the bread failed out of the city. So Jeremiah continued in the court of the prison.

Then the king sent, and called [Jeremiah] to himself into the house of Aselisel, which was in the house of the Lord. And the king said to him, I will ask you a question, and I pray you hide nothing from me.

And the king swore to him, saying, [As] the Lord lives who gave us this soul, I will not slay you, neither will I give you into the hands of these men.

But if you will not go forth, [then] this city shall be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall by no means escape.

And Jeremiah said, They shall in no wise deliver you up. Hear the word of the Lord which I speak to you; and it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.

And behold, all the women that are left in the house of the king of Judah were brought forth to the princes of the king of Babylon. And they said, The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and will prevail against you; and they shall cause your foot to slide and fail, they have turned back from you.

Then the king said to him, Let no man know [any] of these words, and certainly you shall not die.

Then you shall say to them, I brought my supplication before the presence of the king, that he would not send me back into the house of Jonathan, that I should die there.

And Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison, until the time when Jerusalem was taken.

Though desiring to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they counted him as a prophet.

Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

And the king was grieved, but because of the oaths, and because of those who reclined [to eat] with him, he commanded it to be given.

"But not caring, they went away, one to his own field, another to his business.

"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who having taken their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom.

Those who [were] foolish, having taken their lamps, did not take oil with them,

But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.

"Then all those virgins arose, and they trimmed their lamps.

"But the wise answered, saying, 'No, lest there should not be enough for you and us; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'

But when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some were scoffing, but others said, "We will hear you again concerning this."

Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids;

that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.

Seek the Lord, and when you find Him, call upon Him; and when He draws near to you,

Thus says the Lord Almighty, saying, This people say, The time has not come to build the house of the Lord.

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

When once the Master of the house has risen up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open for us,' and answering He will say to you, 'I do not know you, where you are from.'

And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man.

Likewise also as it happened in the days of Lot; they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

For He says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you will hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

but encourage yourselves every day, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, lest anyone falls in the same example of disobedience.

Come now, you who say, "Today and tomorrow let us travel to this city, and let us spend a year there, and let us trade and make a profit"--

[you] who do not know [what will] happen tomorrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little [time], but then also disappears.