And Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Now therefore, present yourself, that I may plead with you before Jehovah concerning all the righteous acts of Jehovah which He did with you and your fathers:

Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Present your case, says Jehovah; approach to argue your defense, says the King of Jacob.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

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

I have hope in God, which they themselves also admit, that there will 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 he sent for him more often and conversed with him.

The God of Israel has said, the Rock of Israel has spoken to me: He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.

For the righteous Jehovah loves righteousness; His face beholds the upright.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.

i1 [To the chief Musician. Altaschith. Michtam of David.] i0 par Do you indeed speak justice, O silent ones? Do you judge with equity, O sons of men?

Indeed, in heart you work injustice; you weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

He will judge Your people in righteousness, and Your lowly with justice.

i1 [A Psalm of Asaph.] i0 par God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods.

Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness; for the throne is established by righteousness.

Moreover I saw under the sun in the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Oh how the faithful city has become a harlot! It was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it; but now, murderers!

And in mercy the throne shall be established; and One shall sit on it in truth in the tent of David, judging and seeking swift justice in righteousness.

For I, Jehovah, love justice; I hate stolen things for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Thus says Jehovah, Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is plundered out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong, do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Shall you reign, because you lust after cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and to do violence.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Enough, O rulers of Israel! Put away violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people, says the Lord Jehovah.

Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you: Even break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; so that perhaps there may be a lengthening of your prosperity.

They have spoken words, swearing vanity in making a covenant. Thus judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in kindness. Break up your fallow ground. For it is time to seek Jehovah, until He comes and rains righteousness on you.

But let justice flow down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Shall horses run on the rock? Or will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

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

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who produces righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not produce righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

lest they drink, and forget the Law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your rulers eat in the morning.

Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your rulers eat at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

and for a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink have gone astray. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink; they are swallowed up by wine; they have gone astray through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his nobles. And he drank wine before the thousand.

Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God in Jerusalem. And the king, his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.

In the day of our king, the rulers have made themselves sick, inflamed with wine. He stretches out his hand with scorners.

For John had said to Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, and he protected him. And when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

And when Herodias' daughter herself came in and danced, and pleased Herod and those who sat with him, the king said to the girl, Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.

So she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Immerser.

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

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

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

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

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

And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the Word of God was preached by Paul at Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds.

Our God comes, and He is not silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy all around Him.

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people.

I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not be astonished at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest watches; so there are those higher than they.

Rejoice in your youth, young man; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things, God will bring you into judgment.

For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

And many of those sleeping in the earth's dust shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to reproach and everlasting abhorrence.

When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

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

for I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me something to 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 hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire having been 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, Truly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.

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

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

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each one's praise will be from God.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

and to give you who are afflicted rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from Heaven with His mighty angels,

These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:

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

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

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

And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away. And there was found no place for them.

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

And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.

Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

So he, trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what do You have in mind for me to do? Then the Lord said to him, Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.

Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and walked about softly.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Jehovah when you heard what I have spoken against this place and against its inhabitants, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I also have heard you, says Jehovah.

Now therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to bring out all these women and those who have been born to them, according to the counsel of the Lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the Law.

So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and all the people sat in the open square of the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.

Jehovah reigns; let the peoples tremble! He dwells between the cherubim; let the earth quake!

My flesh trembles in fear of You, and I am afraid of Your judgments.

Tremble, you women at ease; be troubled, you careless ones; strip yourselves and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your loins.

For all those My hand has made, and all those exist, says Jehovah. But to this one will I have regard: To the lowly and contrite of spirit, and the one who trembles at My Word.

Is not My Word like a fire? says Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

When I heard, my body trembled; my lips quivered at the sound. Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled within myself, that I might rest in the day of distress. When he comes up against the peoples, he will attack.

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.

But if everyone prophesies, and an unbeliever or an unlearned person comes in, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all.

And thus the secrets of his heart become revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will do homage to God and proclaim that God is truly among you.

But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by the faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those believing.

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear so that none of you should show evidence of falling short.

For the Word of God is living and active, 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 intents of the heart.

And so formidable was the sight that Moses said, I am in terror and trembling.)

You believe that God is One. You do well. Even the demons believe, and shudder.

And he brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

And they spoke the Word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

And when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, believing in God with all his household.

Then Agrippa said to Paul, You almost persuade me to become a Christian.

So the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and return him to Amon the ruler of the city and to Joash the king's son;

and say, Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction, until I come in peace.

Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one pays attention,

I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your terror comes;

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

They did not desire my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

For the turning away of the simple kills them, and the ease of fools destroys them.

then Zedekiah the king sent and took him out. And the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any Word from Jehovah? And Jeremiah said, There is. For, He said, you shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.

Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you nor against this land?

And Zedekiah the king commanded that they should put Jeremiah into the court of the guard, and that they should give him a piece of bread out of the bakers' street daily, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus, Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

And Zedekiah the king sent and had Jeremiah the prophet brought to him at the third gate of the house of Jehovah. And the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you something. Do not hide anything from me.

So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Jehovah lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.

But if you will not go forth to the rulers of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hands of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand.

But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. I beg of you, obey the voice of Jehovah which I am speaking to you; so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.

Behold, all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah shall be brought out to the rulers of the king of Babylon, and they shall say, Your friends have enticed you, and have prevailed against you. Your feet have sunk in the mire, and they have turned away.

Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall not die.

then you shall say to them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was captured. And he was there when Jerusalem was captured.

And although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

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

And the king was sorry; nevertheless, because of the oaths and because of those who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her.

But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business.

Then the kingdom of Heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,

But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all nodded and fell asleep.

Then all those virgins arose and prepared their lamps.

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

And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some ridiculed, while others said, We will hear you again concerning this matter.

Do not give sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, This people says, The time has not come, the time for the house of Jehovah to be built.

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for 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 shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He will answer and say to you, I do not know you, where you are from,

And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:

Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;

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

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

do not harden your hearts as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, that not any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Let us therefore be diligent to enter into that rest, that no one fall according to the same example of disobedience.

Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, spend a year there, do business, and make a profit;

whereas you do not know what will be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.