Take words with you and return to Jehovah. Say to Him, Take away all iniquity and receive us with grace, that we may repay with the calves of our lips.

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy.

teach me what I do not see; if I have done injustice, I will do no more?

And many who had believed came confessing and telling their deeds.

So the Word of the Lord grew mightily and was powerful.

For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;

because it is written, Be holy, because I am holy.

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

In this regard, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same overflow of dissipation, blaspheming.

Then he observes men and says, I have sinned, and perverted what was right; and it has not been equaled to me.

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, saying, You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained bull; draw me back, and I shall return. For You are Jehovah my God.

Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? For as often as I spoke against him, I call to mind and remember him still. Therefore My heart is stirred for him; I will have mercy and compassion upon him, says Jehovah.

And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit.

Nathanael said to Him, From where do You know me? Jesus answered and said to him, Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.

I will plant the cedar in the wilderness, the acacia tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree. I will set the fir tree in the desert, and the pine, and the box tree together;

Instead of the thorn, the fir tree shall come up; and instead of the brier, the myrtle tree shall come up; and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for a perpetual sign that shall not be cut off.

The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of My sanctuary; and I will make the place of My feet glorious.

And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.

I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser.

You are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for apart from Me there is not a thing you are able to do.

If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall happen unto you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),

being filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

I have strength for all things in Christ who strengthens me.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.